YPT Podcast Episode 28: Discipleship as Catechesis (Dustin Messer)
Every youth pastor wants to make disciples. But how do we do that, and what can we learn from church history? Catechesis isn’t a boring or stuffy class for people to attend but a highly relational journey where the mentor disciples a student through the core doctrines, habits, and disciplines of the Christian life. Youth workers who want to make lifelong disciples have much to learn from this long-held pattern of discipleship. After all, we aren’t the first Christians who are trying to pass the faith to the next generation.
Discussion Questions:
What is catechesis and how is it different from a catechism?
What’s the benefit of catechesis today?
Why do you think catechesis has lost favor in most churches today?
What are some core principles of catechesis that we can recover for discipling the next generation today?
If someone is coming from a nonliturgical tradition where catechesis and catechisms are completely foreign, how might they begin to introduce these lessons into their youth ministry?
Resources mentioned in the episode:
Gary Parrett & JI Packer, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way
YPT Article: How Catechesis Can Transform Your Youth Ministry
Dustin Messer is vicar at All Saints Dallas in Texas. He also teaches at Kings College and Reformed Seminary.
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