Tuesday night thoughts:

After a good night sleep, I now bring you the highlights of the Tuesday night that was …

*Great conversations happened last night. One with Seth about the importance of being clear in what we sing. There was a line in a song we sang as worship last night that troubled him. The line from the song was “What can I say what can I do, but offer this heart, oh God, completely to you.” He shared that it may give the impression that we have to work for God’s love. He felt that we need to explain briefly that if the youth feel that way, it’s not how God works. So cool to see his passion!
*Kelsey Grubbs was baptized last night ... check out the vid @ www.youtube.com/jcxyouth
*We had a vid that shared thoughts on what we dream church could live like. Really great statements in this vid.
*Teaching focused on this idea and took five things from that “dream” list …
-Anger in the name of people vs. Anger in the name of principles
-Bottom up vs. Top down
-Loving vs. Judging
-Blessing the community vs. Converting the community
-Humility vs. Pretense/False show
-Everyday vs. Tuesday/Sunday
*The youth read the scriptures from the community aloud and I had the privilege of sharing how it connected back to each “vs” from the list above.
*I will make sure we give a microphone to our readers next week. It was difficult to hear everyone. Not everyone is a loud mouth like me.
*D-groups rocked. We covered three specific things about the church from Philippians … First … the Church is a community of people united with Christ. Second … the Church is a community in service to one another. Third … the Church is a community representing Christ to the world.
*Matt and Josh lead us in worship through song while the youth wrote down what they need and what they give to the body of Christ.
*The youth really took this and ran with it. We’re making a “Needs” and “Give” board where the youth can take a need and help meet that need. Same with a give … a youth, who needs something, can take a give card and ask that youth for help in a certain area. It’s new and I’m not sure how it will all work together but I’m excited about it.
*We met @ Big Cheese for study lunch today and Captain Ron walked us through the basics of inductive Bible study. Good time!
*We meet Sunday @ 8:45a for what we’re calling Discussion Sunday. Our topic will be Sexuality and the Church.
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