After my last, lengthy post, I feel like I may have set myself up for two things with this blog: 1) they will all be 9,000 word dissertations, and 2) they will all be serious and heavy. These two things MAY be true on occasion, but they are not rules. You've been warned.
I teach a group of middle school fellas on Wednesday nights. This is probably my favorite thing I get to do, outside of one on one discipleship. These middle school (so 11-14 years old) fellas and I have been going through Colossians verse by verse for 5 months (thank you Matt), which is amazing that they've hung in there with me for so long. Well two weeks ago we started talking about baptism and therefore the Resurrection. They had a ton of INCREDIBLE questions! They were gracious enough to let me have a couple weeks to prepare (and we finished up Colossians last week), but tonight we are talking about the reason we have hope, we have the opportunity to know God personally, the death of Death. Pray for me.. But as an encouragement, have you meditated on the Resurrection lately? We talk about the cross often (and with good reason!), but withouth the resurrection..Jesus would be another hollow prophet..but He DID rise! That empty grave meant we have access to a God who we had been so distant from; it meant that we - small and broken, insignificant, unable to clean up our own act - had RELATIONSHIP with a Holy God. Incredible. (Take a few and catch up, Matthew 28:1-20)
I'm going home this weekend! Me and two kids from my youth group are going to go spend some time checking out UF; one of my two students is a bit of a basketball stud and so he is in the season of taking unofficial trips to schools (unofficial means he's paying for the whole thing - plane ticket, food, housing, and not the school) and Florida is one of those. Being a bit of a Gator fan I volunteered to help my buddy out by showing him around. What a sacrifice, right? It's going to be amazing.
This Sunday our church is diving into the concept of fidelity - the idea of being pure and holy in our relationships with spouses, and the idea of being pure and holy in the preparation for marriage. Any thoughts on how this should be conveyed to middle and high school students? Hutch and Meg are leading the discussion, and will do a tremendous job, but I thought it'd be neat if you had any thoughts.
Much love
Wayne
Matthew 12:33-37
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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Personal testimonies. Real people who messed up and would like a do over.
i'm slow... but, fidelity thoughts (reminder, I'm a girl, so girl perspective):
1. from back in the day... I actually like to start with hygiene, sounds nuts, but - starting with that you can launch into the whole concept of caring about yourself with appearance and such (which kids are obsessed with anyway) - tons of reasons, great lessons in that... but you transition to the main topic here with prep for marriage, being the best you can be. AND huge here - especially for girls - you are beautiful - God made you that way... temple... treat it that way. etc. ( I am blown away every year how much my girls have not learned from their moms about this when we do makeup for performances.) I'll stop - I could rant for days on this.
2. The "base" analogy sucks. The one thing I wish someone had taught me besides abstinence was the baselines. Meaning, we all know what 1st base, 2nd base, etc. is, but not necessarily what can happen in between. Sure, I am naive... and I am still pretty clueless in a lot of ways, and you can't sit and list a bunch of scenarios to students in detail - the point is not to scare them (or have angry parents), but the best advice I ever got on this topic was "know what you will do in the situation before it happens so you can make the right decision, if you don't you can be persuaded more easily". Completely true and absolutely works... but the in between stuff can blindside you. Dudes shouldn't justify it b/c its not defined as "a base" and girls shouldn't be put in that position, but need the defense plan in the event they are.
There's a lot I could say about that - happy to explain better in the future if its worth anything, may not be... this comment is far too long as is.
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