God is doing incredible things in the hearts of Grace's middle school students. They're realizing more and more each day that they need to take the responsibility of their relationship with God in their own hands. We just started an exciting new series on the weekends called Mimic. We started out tonights message by playing a mime game that they loved. Anyway, this week is all about mimicking the attitude of Christ as He took on the responsibility of His call at the age of 12 by ministering in the temple! Our middle school students were amazed to find out that this is the ONLY account recorded in the Bible of Jesus' childhood and that He was THEIR AGE in this story.
After the service an amazing student approached me and told me how he's been ministering in his school. He explained how he wants to do it more so he wanted me to pray for him to gain the courage and strength to live for God as a testimony in his school. WOW! God is incredibly working in this 12 year old's life!
SOMETHING NEW: From now on, every weekend the middle school student will receive a take home card to think about how they personally are applying the message to their life and a Devo To-Go (three five minute devotionals recorded on CD) to use as a tool in their spiritual journey.
On Wednesdays SPIN and CROSSpoint both do the same series but directed at different age groups. We are on a series called The Invisibles. In this series, we walk through the fact that, as Romans puts it, when we were utterly helpless God died for us. So, He saw us. We no longer have to remain invisible anymore. This Wednesday we'll say that since we were seen by God we need to reach out and "see" others. There are people in our youth ministry that are invisible to us and just as Jesus was so good at SEEING PEOPLE we should also get good at seeing people.
One more thing...
I got a text from one of my students last monday saying how excited he was cause he just witnessed to his friends at Chipotle after school! He said he never knew it could feel like such a high and he's hooked! This excited and energized me like none other. Its amazing to me to see spiritual formation happen right before my eyes. Its just a testimony to how miraculous our Almighty God really is.
Ryan Sharp
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