A Perspective on Youth Ministry . He grounded his remarks in his graduate school experience of leading a Sunday School class in a church near the Robert Taylor Homes housing project in Chicago. Throughout his remarks, he linked his experience with this class with certain theoretical perspectives on youth. He employed Victor Turner s categories of stasis, liminality, and re-incorporation into the community as a way of talking about the group s needs and experiences. He next turned to Edward Braxton s The Wisdom Community and its claim that conversion is a process that involves seven moments.
Religious conversion is a move from disinterest to curiosity about the universe.
Theistic conversion leads to naming God and a comfort with God language. Christocentric conversion focuses on the figure of Jesus. Ecclesial conversion results in a commitment to a communal experience of faith. Intellectual conversion transforms random beliefs into a coherent belief system. Moral conversion moves one from belief to action.