I now know how Cinderella must have felt: half the day on my hands and knees cleaning up marshmallow particles from last night (had tarps, they failed). Oh, the things that youth ministry entails. We're getting REALLY excited about our Silver Birch Retreat, January 8-10th, for both Middle School and High School students. If you have not signed up yet please do so, as it's going to be an exciting weekend of games, activities, and worship on our theme: How NOT to Get Caught.
Last night we did have a lot of fun throwing marshmallows and cheese puffs all over the youth room in a variety of different games. We then turned to part three of our Big Time Basics series, this week talking about Jesus. We opened with a clip from the DaVinci code in which the Prof. Lee character claims the idea that Jesus was God was invented 300 years after his death. The Bible, however, tells us that Jesus was 100% human (John 1:14: So the Word became human and lived here on earth among us) AND 100% God (John 1:1-3: In the beginning, the Word already existed. He was with God, and he was God. He was in the beginning with God. He created everything there is. Nothing exists that He didn't make). That seems rather strange to us, but it's how it had to be for God to fulfill his mission. He had to take on human/fleshly elements to teach us directly, experience the difficulties of human life (pain, illness, sadness, suffering, rejection, etc., and to pay the price for our sins. Yet, he remained God through it all, so that it is GOD, and not some mere messenger, that does all those things FOR US. When we get that it becomes so obvious how great God's love is for us.
AND 100% God
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