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A Discipleship Model For Youth At The Paradise Adventist Church, Milton Daniel Marquez
A Discipleship Model For Youth At The Paradise Adventist Church, Milton Daniel Marquez
Professional Dissertations DMin
Problem
For more than a decade the Paradise Adventist Church had been experiencing a common problem facing most churches in North America: approximately 60% of the youth were leaving the church. Rainer and Rainer (2008) argue that one of the factors in two-thirds of young adults between the ages of 18 and 22 leaving our churches after high school is the lack of a simple and effective discipleship process. Pastoral observation concurs that a primary contributing factor to the loss of Adventist youth is that the youth are not being discipled effectively and thus not rooted in Scripture, connected to …