1. The New Adolescent & Sticky Faith
Chap Clark, PhD
Professor of Youth, Family and Culture
Fuller Theological Seminary

2. Many claim it’s getting tougher to work with a kid today…

3. The background for Sticky Faith…
3 intersecting crises in YM:
We’re losing kids (Sticky Faith)
Rise of the “Nones”/“Gones”
Kids are Hurt (2.0)
It is the trajectory we’ve all been on for years…

4. What we learned through Sticky Faith research:
Significance of parents
“Liked” worship
Didn’t know Gospel
They were allowed to doubt
Believed someone cared usually outside of youth ministry

5. Spiritual development cannot be separated from
Understanding growing up…
Why this matters…
Spiritual development cannot be separated from
human development

6. The Church’s Ministry to Families
The fragmentation of the church
F.M.
L.D.
Y.M.
Church
W.M.
C.M.
W.M.
M.M.

7. To catechize: Convince (convert?) Inform (teach)
How we have responded?
To catechize:
Convince (convert?)
Inform (teach)
(maybe) Acculturate

8. What do we do? A. Erosion of Social Capital
B. Acculturation/Assimilation?

9. What do we do? A. Erosion of Social Capital
B. Acculturation/Assimilation?
C. Theology of our life together
D. Who we are: “family”