Tyndale House Publishers, 2006, 164 pp.,
$14.99, tyndale.com
In Ministry Mutiny, Stier tells the narrative of a discouraged youth ministry pastor ready to abandon his calling. The young youth minister finds he has been swept up in the unspoken paradigm that we have to do youth ministry the way it has always been done. With the help of a newly found mentor — a veteran youth leader — he discovers he needs to commit ministry mutiny: an overthrow of the current structure of youth ministry. As he evaluates the effectiveness of the current youth ministry model, his experienced friend teaches him six important principles that bring him back to his basic core beliefs. These timeless truths take him from a ministry that has been meeting driven, compartmentalized, divorced from parental responsibility and entertainment obsessed back to one that teaches theology and truth. Stier’s passion for evangelism flows throughout the story.
Ministry Mutiny is a philosophy of youth ministry text disguised as a novel. It will rest as comfortably in the evangelism section of your library as it will with philosophy of youth ministry literature.
