Youth News August 20, 2015
Youth Led Worship is this Sunday night, August 23 at 5 p.m. Parents, please make sure your children are
at church, ready to serve by 4:45 p.m.
Our 2015-2016 Youth Ministry Preview will be this Sunday,
August 23 immediately following youth led worship at 5 p.m.
Family Devotional and End of Summer Pool Party! Join us for our family devotional and pool
party at Courtney Singleton’s parents home, Mike and Susan Miesse. They live at 630 South Davis St. Courtney asks that when you come to their
house that you park around by the back gate, or park in the Can Help building
parking lot. The devotional and pool
party will be from 6-8 p.m. Everyone is
invited to attend! Pizza and ice will be
provided, we ask that guys bring a bag of chips or dessert and girls bring a
drink to share.
Join us for Failure to Launch, a lesson series on Wednesday
nights about how we can grow deeper in our walk with Christ. 6:30-7:30 PM.
David Bowden Performance – September 12 @ Rockwall &
Brin Church of Christ in Terrell, TX.
The poet and his wife will talk about their ministry and there will be
snacks provided. We will need at least
two parents to serve as chaperones and a bus driver for this great event. Want to see what this event is about? Check out a poem from David Bowden’s Youtube
page:
Sunday AM Class - There will be family devotional sheets
available every week that build off of the Sunday lesson. These lessons will be available on this blog
(see below). Take advantage of these
family devotional times with your child(ren.)
Family Ministry:
A note from Kirk Reams:
This is the info on the Kirk Cameron Marriage Seminar tour:
http://www.loveworthfightingfor.com/
Kirk would like to order tickets by this Sunday, August 22nd
if possible. If we can get 10+, they are $20.00 each, if not $22.50 each. The
seminar date is 10/17 from 6:00 - 9:30pm at Winnsboro High School. See Kirk if you are interested.
This blog is intended to help communicate to you what the
youth ministry at League Street Church of Christ in Sulphur Springs, TX has
planned. This blog will be updated
weekly and will be advertised through email and our Facebook group. You may come to this blog at any time to get
information on upcoming events for the youth ministry
REVERB :: CRUX :: Something For Everyone
Lesson one Family Devotion
The H1N1 virus, better known as the “Swine Flu” epidemic of
2009, left a lot of people wondering about the truth and seriousness of the
fast-traveling virus. Was this flu bug really as bad as was said? Was it the
killer that everyone had been built up to believe that it would be? Was the
vaccine really worth taking, or was it more risky than the actual virus itself?
While the National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta worked hard to dispel
rumors and encourage people to get vaccinated, people were still left wondering
about what was truth and what was rumor or myth.
The word gospel has everything to do with Good News—news
that is truth. The gospel is all about the story of God’s salvation coming down
to humanity. It’s all about God’s love in the form of His Son Jesus. As a
family, read Romans 1:14–17.
The man must have been crazy. Paul was traveling all over
the Mediterranean, Asia Minor, and Europe spreading the gospel of Jesus
Christ—something that people had never seen with their own eyes. But what they
were to believe? The fact is that Paul was unrelenting. He wasn’t going to let
up. The need to tell everyone about Jesus Christ and His salvation drove him
forward, helping him to endure imprisonment, beatings, angry mobs, stones
thrown at him, and all kinds of death threats. Even so, his love of Christ and
the truth of the gospel pushed him forward. Paul had come face-to-face with the
truth of Christ and believed it, and his faith convinced him that he had
nothing to be ashamed of—except for failure to share the gospel.
Maybe you’ve heard this illustration before, but imagine
having a cure for cancer, HIV/AIDS, or some other devastating disease—but you
are unwilling to share the cure. Who would do that?
The truth is that we have the cure for the sin which
separates us from God and can send us to an eternity of suffering and death.
Why would we ever choose to hold that truth to ourselves and not share it with
a world that needs to know? If we believe the truth of the gospel, we have
nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, we have everything to hope for. Do you know
the truth of the gospel? Are you sitting on it, or are you wearing it so that
others see and know that it defines who you are in Christ? You hold the truth.
It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Connection Questions
1. Let’s be honest with ourselves: Are we ashamed of the
gospel? Is this not the reason for why we refuse to share it? If not, then what
is the reason?
2. If you were to relay the gospel message to someone and
you had just five minutes to do so, what would you want him or her to know
about God’s love, Christ, salvation, and eternal life?
3. Ask yourself: What was so compelling to Paul about the
gospel? What would it take for me to have his drive in sharing the gospel?
4. When you think of the gospel as the prescribed cure for
sin, how does this change your perspective on sharing it?
5. How would you explain faith to someone else? How would
you describe your own faith that accepts the gospel?
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