JCX Tuesday 5/18/10

JCX Tuesday details:

Here ya go …

-This time every year there is this apathy that sets in across the board, adults and youth, where we feel it’s ok to do nothing. So far, I have seen a great resistance to that in our youth. Especially in the leaders group. There is a strong group of people that want their lives to bring influence and passion to others. So thank you to those that are not giving in: Lacey, Amanda, Emily, Robert, Eric, Seth, Shelby, Samantha, Steven, Jacob, Ronnie, Chelsea, Aaron … gosh … this might be a long list … there are more and I love watching God

-Our teaching focused on this idea: how does Jesus define faith? How often do we get all sorts of weird ideas about faith? For example: that didn’t happen or they weren’t healed because you didn’t have enough faith or pray hard enough. So, we took what Jesus said about faith and asked “how do we live this out?” Here’s what we came up with. Faith is like knocking (there was a door in the middle of the room) … we talked about how knocking is saying “God, I know who you are and what you promised so I’m asking you to be the God you say you are.” Faith is like the wind (had a big fan running) … God isn’t in love with some future version of you, he is in love with you. Faith is like being thirsty (lots of water around the room) … only Jesus satisfies the soul. Faith like reporting (there was a tv in the center of the room) … speak about how Jesus is working in us. Faith is like coming home (we had a log cabin play house in the room) … the Father always has his hands wide open … may we live that way also.

-The teaching lead into our D-group time. Each group spent time in worship with a focus on each of the characteristics of faith. Some great discussion and thoughts shared.

-Our leaders group spent some time chatting with other D-groups about what they hope to see JCX accomplish together. We will spend some time discussing that next week in our leaders group.

-Now … we’re planning for a time of worship on Thursday @4pm. It was an idea of our leaders group. They felt another time together was important to our community and so we’re trying out this time of worship. Hoping it catches on and becomes something that inspires and encourages our youth to live out their faith wherever they go.

-CIY is coming and … well … here’s why everyone should go:

-We are planning a kick back day each month … details in the next blog entry.