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6 Weekly Sessions
Tuesdays, September 17, 2024 — October 22, 2024
8:30 to 10 p.m. ET
7:30 to 9 p.m. CT
5:30 to 7 p.m. PT
$299
Discipleship happens consciously and unconsciously, formally and informally. Phone screens, political pundits, friends, films, dinner table conversations, and experiences of the church all shape who we will be and how we will conceive of God. The question is not whether we are being discipled, but who is discipling us and to what end?
The accessibility of media gives young people today the opportunity to encounter modern conceptions of freedom, identity, and sexuality often before their parents or churches have ever thought to instruct them on Scripture’s counter-message. It’s not surprising, then, that many young people have abandoned the church. In fact the overwhelming majority of people who dechurch will have made that decision by the end of their 20s.
Yet we still see faithful Christians taking up this challenge to disciple the generations across the nations. This cohort considers and critiques cultural narratives of human flourishing while offering a biblical portrait that helps young people to see the Christian worldview as true, good, and beautiful.
If you are a parent of a teenager or in student ministry, this online learning cohort will offer a broad and practical overview of how churches and families might serve young people through the various stages of their young adult life—in the home, college, and career—and allow for participants to learn and interact with leading scholars and practitioners in the church.
Those who sign up for this cohort will receive free copies of:
If English isn’t your first language or hearing impaired, we have been working to enhance your cohort experience by incorporating Zoom’s real-time translation (and/or closed captioning) into your cohort experience. Real-time cohort transcription is available in these languages with the touch of the “closed caption” button:
Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese(Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
* We are unable to offer refunds for The Keller Center cohorts
* Registration closes on September 3, 2024
* Books will be mailed starting September 4, 2024
* All sessions will be recorded and available for streaming or download at your leisure in perpetuity and so if you can’t make it live or even for months the material is still readily available for you.
If you have any questions pertaining to signing up for your cohort, group rates, elder/preaching team rates, or church rates email [email protected].
In this opening session, we will participants see the challenges and hope that comes with
parenting in our cultural moment. We will consider the various pressures on parents and young
people today and turn to our help in God. We will see how God has given us himself, families,
and the church for the task of forming young people.
In this session, we will turn a more critical eye to the cultural narratives young people today are shaped by. This will include an overview of seven narratives (freedom, power, identity, justice, happiness, science, and progress) and how, through a deeper understanding of these narratives, we might counter-catechize young people according to the one true story in God’s word that fulfills these cultural longings.
This session will turn to the role of the local church in discipling young people and families. This session will offer a vision of the local church’s ministry to young people that is gospel-centered, involving the whole church, and attuned to the whole person. This session will also seek to offer practical demonstrations of how these discipleship environments in the local church might manifest themselves.
A recent Barna study found that as many as 70% of Christian high school students will walk away from their faith while in college. While the accuracy of such a shocking statistic might be debatable, all agree that the transition from life at home to life in college is one of the most challenging for the faith of young people. Moreover, all would probably agree that families and churches need to rethink our current models and approaches which have not produced the results we might have hoped for. This cohort meeting will explore how parents can think more wholistically and practically about preparing their kids to face that tough intellectual and moral challenges of the real world so that they can survive the next stage of their life with their faith intact.
This session will help us to think about discipleship of during the personally and intellectually complex world of college. We will think through how discipleship of college students must be attuned to building a sense of belonging to God’s people, through community and connection, and strong belief, through biblical and theological development. In doing so, we will see how our discipleship might form students for lifelong faithfulness and equip young people for evangelism.
In this final session, we will consider together how we can bring all that has presented in the course to practical application in the family and in the local church.
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Discipleship happens consciously and unconsciously, formally and informally. Phone screens, political pundits, friends, films, dinner table conversations, and experiences of the church all shape who we will be and how we will conceive of God. The question is not whether we are being discipled, but who is discipling us and to what end?
The accessibility of media gives young people today the opportunity to encounter modern conceptions of freedom, identity, and sexuality often before their parents or churches have ever thought to instruct them on Scripture’s counter-message. It’s not surprising, then, that many young people have abandoned the church. In fact the overwhelming majority of people who dechurch will have made that decision by the end of their 20s.
Yet we still see faithful Christians taking up this challenge to disciple the generations across the nations. This cohort considers and critiques cultural narratives of human flourishing while offering a biblical portrait that helps young people to see the Christian worldview as true, good, and beautiful.
If you are a parent of a teenager or in student ministry, this online learning cohort will offer a broad and practical overview of how churches and families might serve young people through the various stages of their young adult life—in the home, college, and career—and allow for participants to learn and interact with leading scholars and practitioners in the church.
Those who sign up for this cohort will receive free copies of:
If English isn’t your first language or hearing impaired, we have been working to enhance your cohort experience by incorporating Zoom’s real-time translation (and/or closed captioning) into your cohort experience. Real-time cohort transcription is available in these languages with the touch of the “closed caption” button:
Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese(Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
* We are unable to offer refunds for The Keller Center cohorts
* Registration closes on September 3, 2024
* Books will be mailed starting September 4, 2024
* All sessions will be recorded and available for streaming or download at your leisure in perpetuity and so if you can’t make it live or even for months the material is still readily available for you.
If you have any questions pertaining to signing up for your cohort, group rates, elder/preaching team rates, or church rates email [email protected].
In this opening session, we will participants see the challenges and hope that comes with
parenting in our cultural moment. We will consider the various pressures on parents and young
people today and turn to our help in God. We will see how God has given us himself, families,
and the church for the task of forming young people.
In this session, we will turn a more critical eye to the cultural narratives young people today are shaped by. This will include an overview of seven narratives (freedom, power, identity, justice, happiness, science, and progress) and how, through a deeper understanding of these narratives, we might counter-catechize young people according to the one true story in God’s word that fulfills these cultural longings.
This session will turn to the role of the local church in discipling young people and families. This session will offer a vision of the local church’s ministry to young people that is gospel-centered, involving the whole church, and attuned to the whole person. This session will also seek to offer practical demonstrations of how these discipleship environments in the local church might manifest themselves.
A recent Barna study found that as many as 70% of Christian high school students will walk away from their faith while in college. While the accuracy of such a shocking statistic might be debatable, all agree that the transition from life at home to life in college is one of the most challenging for the faith of young people. Moreover, all would probably agree that families and churches need to rethink our current models and approaches which have not produced the results we might have hoped for. This cohort meeting will explore how parents can think more wholistically and practically about preparing their kids to face that tough intellectual and moral challenges of the real world so that they can survive the next stage of their life with their faith intact.
This session will help us to think about discipleship of during the personally and intellectually complex world of college. We will think through how discipleship of college students must be attuned to building a sense of belonging to God’s people, through community and connection, and strong belief, through biblical and theological development. In doing so, we will see how our discipleship might form students for lifelong faithfulness and equip young people for evangelism.
In this final session, we will consider together how we can bring all that has presented in the course to practical application in the family and in the local church.
6 Weekly Sessions
Tuesdays, September 17, 2024 — October 22, 2024
8:30 to 10 p.m. ET
7:30 to 9 p.m. CT
5:30 to 7 p.m. PT
$299
