MS recap of Habits week one

We had an awesome middle school youth group this week, with 27 students packing the youth room (pretty cool since the church only has 19 middle schoolers). No one died during our fun and action packed game, although there were a few close calls. We kicked off our HABITS series by talking about the importance of regularly Hanging out with God by doing things such as praying, listening to music, and reading the Bible. Why should we hangout with God regularly? Because God wants us to constantly be growing so that we may have a life that is good for us, others, and serves God. If we stop growing (hanging out with God) we will never reach our full potential, which will be a bummer thing for us, others, and God. As an illustration I talked about the San Francisco Bush Man, a guy who all he does is hide behind bushes in San Francisco and scare people. Surprise surprise but I found the Bush Man on You Tube and have posted that for your enjoyment to the right of this post (is there anything not on Youtube?). Basically he decided at some point to stop growing and never reached his potential. Who knows what great things he could have done had he kept learning and growing. By spending time with God we grow in our abilities, our knowledge, and our faith, enabling us to do bigger and better things. So, my challenge to everyone is to spend some time every day to just hangout with God.