RT Article
T1 What helps young Christians grow in discipleship? Exploring connections between discipleship pathways and psychological type
JF Mental health, religion & culture
VO 24
IS 6
SP 563
OP 580
A1 Francis, Leslie J. 1947-
A1 Fawcett, Bruce G.
A1 Freeze, Tracy
A1 Embree, Renee
A1 Lankshear, David W.
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1762936585
AB Drawing on data provided by 299 12- to 18-year-old Baptists attending a week-long summer programme of the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada, the study explores the connections between personal factors (age and sex), psychological factors (introversion, sensing, feeling, and judging), and contextual factors (church support and challenges to faith), four discipleship pathways (group activities, individual experiences, church worship, and public engagement), and two indices of Christian growth (depth of discipleship and strength of vocation). The data demonstrate that psychological factors shape preferred pathways of discipleship, that perceived church support is important for growing both depth of discipleship and strength of vocation, that perceived challenges to faith weaken depth of discipleship, that the discipleship pathway of group activities is central to growing young Christians within the Baptist tradition, and that depth of discipleship is further enhanced by the pathway of individual experience, while strength of vocation is further enhanced by the pathway of church worship.
K1 Youth Ministry
K1 psychological type
K1 Empirical Theology
K1 discipleship learning
K1 Christian formation
DO 10.1080/13674676.2020.1767556