Throughout this week, we will be offering an opportunity to catch-up on where we have already been regarding Caffeine: Brewing a Youth Ministry that Stimulates.

The Emmaus Story is a model in that “the teacher” was One who Himself drew near to the students know that He and they would both be defined by the direction of the journey.  The Master matched the pace of his companions and offered both message and method by which the story continues.

As the story begins, we find the disciples heartbroken and Jesus addresses the CONTEXT of their lives, appealing to the heart of the disciples, addressing the affective dimension and the living side of their maturing faith.

When the disciples and their unrecognized Lord explore what has been going on, they are left with a sense of heartburn striving to understand the meaning of the CONTENT of their experience, getting it all into their head addressing the cognitive dimension and the explicit side of their maturing faith.

The Emmaus-style catechesis and evangelization continued beyond the journey as the disciples invited their unrecognized Lord to stick around as they were en-heart-ened by their experience, one of COMMUNION. This was something that speaks of feet as in “where we stand” and where “we we are going” thereby it addressing the spiritual dimension and  confession of one’s maturing faith.

In the end, the disciples changed course, citing their burning hearts as they chose to CONSPIRE in the faith by taking matters into their own hands.  It was because the behavioral dimension was addressed in anticipation of the fruitful side of a maturing faith.