Alternate Titles: The Trust Walk that Ate Seattle or The IceBreaker from the Black Lagoon

Who will like this book: Youthworkers who will burst if they have to come up with yet another snazzy, non-threatening, group building activity that can be ever-so-minutely-and-very-precariously segued off of and into tonight’s Bible study.

Who also will like this book: Youthworkers who have always wondered why it is kids are so into their group and so not into God.

Who will hate this book: Youthworkers who have found the aforementioned group building activity.

Who also will hate this book: Youthworkers who confuse being into the group and being into God.

Who should read this book: Parents, Senior Pastors, Youthworker Hiring and CE Committees, the Publishers, Promoters and Pushers of church youth curriculums that include the words "relevant", "latest", "modern", "NIV" and "active learning" in the teacher training portion of their materials.

Why: The authors do a credible job of highlighting the Faustian bargain made by YS, Group, David C. Cook and other curriculum producers who have embraced the self focused and group driven secular learning strategies of Rogers and Dewey to teach the truth of the Scriptures to young people.

Questions that remain: Can the message of the Bible never overcome the method of its instruction? Wasn't dying on the cross a kind-of-maybe-sort-of "active" way of teaching us about God's love and justice?