Sunday, January 4, 2009

sunday youth



i had the youth by myself tonight. it was jam-packed of eventfulness.

let me back up...i had the youth to myself all day. sunday school....mucho fun, until all the youth minus 2 (enough for acolytes) left to go to one of the youth's parent's churches.
...later more showed up and we went to memphis pizza cafe.

tonight at youth...
i came in and the kids were watching tarzan with bryan,
then i had my lesson. i spoke from romans 8 and talked of how we are forever in debt to God and how when we go to worship we should not feel bad for not feeling 'full of the spirit' after church.
i explained how a lot of times we feel 'revitalized' after a retreat or camp where we're being pumped full of awesome christ-ness and surrounded by all these awesome christians...and how sometimes that fades.
it's okay to feel rejuvinated in the spirit....but worship is not about us as christians and what WE get out of it.

i explained that it's about giving of yourself to God.
i related the lesson to the song 'i'm coming back to the heart of worship, cause it's all about you, it's all about you jesus'

i also explained how being a christian isn't easy and it's not supposed to be.
then related it to...
'for i consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us'
-Romans 8:18

my friends fuss and mike came by to play basketball w/ the boys since they were short players...
so all in all it was a great evening!

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