Shaping the Journey of Emerging Adults: Life-Giving Rhythms for Spiritual Transformation

Between adolescence and adulthood is a new stage of life: emerging adulthood. Those in their twenties and early thirties find themselves in transition. This provisional adulthood is a time of identity exploration and instability in which one's vocation, purpose, relationships and spirituality are all being renegotiated. Many emerging adults lose sight of God and experience significant confusion and brokenness. Others unexpectedly reconnect with the Christian faith and seek deeper discipleship, yet lack helpful mentoring and direction. Veteran disciplemakers Rick Dunn and Jana Sundene offer concrete guidance for those who shepherd and care for emerging adults. Some traditional models of disciplemaking focus on a set curriculum to be transferred from the discipler to the disciplee. Dunn and Sundene instead emphasize relational rhythms of discernment, intentionality and reflection to meet emerging adults where they are at and then to walk with them further into the Christlife. Whether you're an older adult ministering to the next generation or a younger adult with a heart for your peers, this book is an accessible, hopeful guide for effective ministry to emerging adults.

Author: Richard R. Dunn, Jana L. Sundene
Publisher: IVP Books
Published: 01/20/2012
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.12h x 5.93w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780830834693

Review Citation(s):
Christian Retailing 03/01/2012 pg. 18

About the Author
Dunn, Richard R.: -

Richard R. Dunn (Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is lead pastor at Fellowship Evangelical Free Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, a congregation consisting primarily of emerging adults. He was formerly chair of educational ministries at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is the author of Shaping the Spiritual Life of Students.

Sundene, Jana L.: -

Jana L. Sundene is associate professor of Christian ministries at Trinity College, Trinity International University, in Deerfield, Illinois. She serves on the leadership core of Life on the Vine Christian Community, a missional church in Long Grove, Illinois. She has contributed to Christian Education Journal, The Complete Book of Youth Ministry and Reaching a Generation for Christ.