To God Be the Glory

Last night at The Refinery (our Sr. High Ministry) we had an incredible service.  It was awesome.  Throughout the past 5 weeks we have been talking about what it means to be the body of Christ.  This has been a good series overall I thought.  We called it “Our Ipods are Different”.  Last night it was great to see what God was doing in our group.

We had a great time in worship before my lesson, and then we opened the Word and looked at the idea of “What do we do now?”  We have walked through 1 Corinthians 12 & 13.  We ended this series looking at Acts 2.  The Apostle Peter just got done preaching a sermon in which 3000 people believed what he was saying about who Jesus was.  The church added 3000 people in one day.  I wondered, what did they do next?  They did four things.  Probably those four things would apply to us too huh?  I think so anyway…

They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching, to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer.  This is what we need to be doing!  This is the next step for our ministry!  To devote ourselves to each other.

That was my message in brief summary.  The response that we had was overwhelming.  What occured in the next 15 minutes literally brought tears of joy to my eyes.  I looked around, and I watched as you guys took communion with one another, prayed with each other, and then I watched as students began to put their arms around one another and sing in unison.  We were singing of how good God has been to us.  How God’s blood has washed us white as snow.  Thank you God for working in our midst.

It was times like this that make times like this worth it.  It was times like this that make ministry the most amazing thing that I could dedicate my life to.

“To God be the glory for the great things He has done”

~Peter