This past Friday, the youth traveled to Benton to have a Lock-In. I will be posting pics in the near future. Although we had a small number of our core group attend, we had a large number of outsiders. A parent or two voiced their concern that too many outsiders were going. "These people are not even in the youth group."
Well, to address that, I would like to say that I am glad that we had a bunch of outsiders go. From that crew, we had several attend last night for the youth connection group that meets at the building. Little by little, God is bringing them to the group.
Many of these kids have parents that do not attend any congregation. They have no etiquette when it comes to church or its activities. Their sense of morality is skewed, if they have any instilled in them to begin with. They cuss, they make crude jokes, they are disrespectful and they talk about things that are taboo. At the same time, they are insecure, vulnerable and searching for something or someone to bring meaning to their lives. They have found the void and want desperately to fill it.
Guess what! Those are the very people that I seek to bring into this ministry. I long to help them find God and His son, Jesus. I believe that Jesus calls all of us who work in ministry to search for this ragtag group of people that have not seen Christ exemplified in anyone around them and show them the greates love and grace that has ever been or will ever be.
Folks, these are the lost.
Let's go out and bring them in to the Savior!
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Amen!!!
Praise God for bringing this teenagers into your life and the lives of other christians. WE deedo what you are saying. We have a responsabilily of showing Christ and His love to all. Specially those little ones.
We love you.
Keep your eyes on Christ;
Your fellow servants
Carlos and Mari
Jimmy,
Who would've given Jesus a thumbs up on his Motley Crue selection of apostles who would go on to lead the world to revolutionary change?
I love you for your ministry and your heart; for helping people find "eternity in their heart." Enough with the teen tragedy when the void is filled with dangerous alternatives.
I can appreciate that parent's concern. We never want our own children to become the companions sullied by bad company. Yet, how are my girls ever going to understand the lived out mission of Jesus by isolating and insulating themselves from the children in this world who haven't been blessed to know Jesus from the moment of their birth?
As Nehemiah said, "I'm doing a great work and cannot stop!" You don't either!
Jim
Jimmy, You are the man! Tell it like it is Brother! I love you to death and know that you are growing more every day in God's kingdom. I don't have as much on line time as I would like so I don't read your blog real often, but I couldn't pass this one up. Keep up the good work Jimmy! I love you. Rick
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