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Fulcrum Point #6 Get Multi

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Suggestions for Implementing this Fulcrum Point

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Foster a burden for young adults.

You will not reach people you don't value.
Young adults are not a "target group" they are people for whom Christ died.

Integrate youth & young adults into the fiber of the church.

Listen to Mark Driscoll talk about how the youth group can become the young people's church instead of a department of the church.
If young adults are old enough to vote and die for our country, aren't they old enough to be an usher in our churches or serve on a committee?

Challenge the youth and young adults to take responsibility for their church.

Listen to Mark Driscoll talk about why he has so many young adults in his church.
They are adults, let them serve.
Read The Boomerang Mandate: Returning the Ministry to the People of God by Jim L. Wilson and Tom Stringfellow.
Read Intersecting Lives by Geno Robinson.

Value the young.

Paul told Timothy not to despise his youth. The young are not the church of tomorrow, they are the church of today. Value them.

"Multi" isn’t just about age.

Listen to Dan Kimball talk about how important it is to include women into the leadership of the church.
Read How multi-cultural is the postmodern church? Really. by David Hopkins on the Next Wave Website.

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