Attic Youth

Last night I was asked by Dylan to speak to your youth. It was really fun! I shared a message that was 15 minutes long. I was shooting for 12, but went over 3. I gave them 6 implications of John 3:16 which says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life." Here is the message and its six implications.

One, there is a God. The Bible tells us that he created everything for his pleasure and thus, he is over all the universe and it all belongs to him. Two, God loves what he has made. He is passionately and intimately involved in the details of what he made. He loves individual people. Three, God allows his creation to make choices so that we can truly love him and we often choose poorly. God wants to forgive those poor choices and is so passionate about it that he was willing to trade his son to forgive your personal poor choices and your sin. Four, there is a decision to make about his son. Whoever believes, means that anyone can believe, but that some may not. Five, there are negative consequences to rejecting Christ, both now and in eternity. Six, when we choose Christ we have eternal life and that life starts, not when we die, but as soon as we receive his forgiveness.

To close it up I showed them where the Bible tells us to judge ourselves and the the bible requires us to make spiritual judgements. People think that the Bible tells us not to judge, it tells us not to be judgemental. However, it tells us many more times in many places to judge between good and evil, especially in ourselves!

Six teens responded to the opportunity to ask for God's forgiveness and know that they are right with God. For most of them it was something that they had done before, but wanted to be sure, or needed to re-start their walk with the Lord.

Afterwards, I planned to allow them to ask me any question they wanted, and they did! They have some great questions. I love Q & A! Here are some examples:
-When we get to heaven can we be kicked out?
-What do you do when Science and the Bible contradict each other?
-Will we have wings, wrinkles, or animals in heaven?
-Can a homosexual change their orientation?
-Do you have the entire Bible memorized or something?

I had a great time. It is so much fun to hang with this group. We can still add some to the youth convention trip. Don't let your teen miss out?