Even as I type, bodies are waking up, rooms are being packed up, and what once was a pristine keswick campus is being picked up and put back together after 150 different teenagers came together and lived as a community for a week. Words cannot begin to describe what this week has meant in the life of our ministry.
Last night we heard from Jason Mitchell one last time. He wrapped up the whole week with a great story. It’s a timeless question that we all need to answer. It’s a question that Jesus asked His closest followers. He asked this to those around Him who where His friends, those He loved. He asks His disciples this one very profound question. “Who do people say I am?”
Next question, even better, (I love this one) “WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?”
This is the question that each one of us in the room was faced with. Who do you say I am? Having learned about several different attributes of who Jesus is this week, we are faced with the reality that Jesus is indescirbable, our human language doesn’t contain enough words to begin to describe who Christ is. How do you answer that question? Who is Jesus to you?
We closed with communion. Very fitting if you ask me. We talked about who Jesus was all week. Now it was the time to remember Jesus in the way that He wanted to be remembered, with the 2 symbols. Bread, and Wine. He was broken, and poured out; as a student minstry, and as a youth pastor, I want nothing more than for this family that God has brought together to live a Jesus centered life. A life so broken and poured out that it absolutely infultrates their surroundings. That it changes you. That it changes my church. That it changes me even. I’m ready to see these students, this family, rise up and live in such a way that they are not Christian by name, but are Christian by what the way they live.
Last night we had an unbelievable time together. It was what sealed the whole week for our group. It wasn’t in a speaker, even though he was great. It wasn’t in a worship band, it wasn’t in anything programed. It was in a sharing time. God was working in the hearts of these students in a mighty way. I’m not even sure how to put words to what we shared last night.
I can’t say this one thing enough.
To those of you who have been praying this week for us. THANK YOU.
I know without a shadow of a doubt that God answered our prayers. If you were praying specifically, you know that I had asked for us to come together with unity and love for one another. Well we prayed, and God showed up in a big way. PRAISE GOD.
God is in the process of healing. He is bringing about restoration in so many different areas. We have a very bright future in store for our student ministry, and it is in part thank to each one of these students that came with us this week. They are incredible.
To God be the glory great things He has done, so loved he the world that He gave us His son, who yielded His life an atonement for sin, and opened the lifegate that all may go in.
PRAISE THE LORD, PRAISE THE LORD, LET THE EARTH HEAR HIS VOICE, PRAISE THE LORD, PRAISE THE LORD, LET HIS PEOPLE REJOICE, O COME TO THE FATHER THRU JESUS HIS SON, AND GIVE HIM THE GLORY GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE!
~Peter
