Youth are asking some great questions and I have been so enlightened by their curiosity. Curiosity for most of us was put on the shelf to collect dust a long time ago. We have become cynics to most of our questions. Who wrote the bible? People did. Enough said. But the more we dig the more I believe we find a richness that in someways was lost before. Who wrote the bible? People that cared. People that wanted to tell a story. People that wanted a story to give us substance, a God-breathed identity.
I encourage you to grab your youth and watch this video with them. A great, quirky video about how the bible came to be. If the bible is all that we say it is. If it is really "God breathed..." then it must be really good for us to read. Just like an ice cream cone on a hot summer day! Or a pumpkin spice latte on cool, rainy day like today!
I started reading the bible for the first time in my life in 10th grade. I started reading the book of John and it was life giving. In fact it changed my life. As we choose our next right step toward Jesus maybe it is good for us to find some time maybe once a week to sit down and read a chapter of the bible. Maybe to ask each other what we are reading and together explore what it means to follow Jesus.
So this week we are talking about being a Christian and what that means. In particular... Can you be a Christian and not go to church? You can imagine that there are probably a lot of different answers to this question... so we will explore it some this Sunday. Hope your youth and their friends join us!
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