No, this is not the usual 80’s music post, although I have been listening to Eric Carmen lately. Did you know that his first 2 hits were based on Rachmaninoff pieces? True story. Ask Caleb Rebarchak. But that’s not my point.
I just completed my first week back in the saddle, teaching middle school and high school students at Calvary. We’re going back to our roots, back to the basics, talking about the purposes of the Church, which are the purposes of our youth ministry, which are supposed to be our purposes as followers of Jesus. Over the next few weeks we’ll work through Worship/Prayer, Serving others, Evangelism, Discipleship, and Community. This week we covered worship at HSM (High School Ministry) and XStream (middle school).
We looked at Luke 10, the passage about the first part of the Great Commandment: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind. As I walked around the room, I was looking for something in the eyes of the students, some glimmer, some spark. God is looking for people who are going to respond to him in LOVE. Jesus said that the folks who have been forgiven much will LOVE him much. Take a look at your own life and see if this is true:
You love what you worship, and worship what you love.
The win for God in all this is RELATIONSHIP. Jesus came to tear down the walls that separate us from our Heavenly Father and calls us to abide/remain in him. The Holy Spirit was sent to LIVE in us. God is waiting for the day that he makes his dwelling place with his people. God has loved us; our right response to God is love.
And I so look forward to seeing that light, that spark in the eyes of students who are hungry to develop this relationship with Jesus. That’s one of the reasons that I love being a youth pastor.
That, and the fact that it keeps me culturally relevant. Like this:
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