From an interview with Mark Yaconelli,  he was asked 'How would you love to see youth ministry change?

Yaconelli:  "I think it's time for youth ministry to take all of it's idealism and creativity and wisdom and give it away to the church. I think it's time for the youth ministry experiment to be over. It's time youth ministry claimed itself as the revolutionary arm of the church... and then refuse to be segregated from the rest of the church. Every study in the past fifty years shows that it's an ecology of faithful, intergenerational relationships that best form young people into Christians. So it's time to stop being segregated. It's time for youth ministry to end and the whole church to begin. This may happen by youth ministry joining the church, or by the church joining youth ministry."

(from Youth Ministry Interview http://yminterviews.blogspot.com/)

What do you think?

Should the youth ministry join the church or should the church join the youth ministry? 

What are reasons for keeping the youth ministry segregated?