had one of the coolest experiences of my life this past weekend. took 2 students from our youth group to meet up with 5 other students from youth groups in indianapolis and brownsburg to just talk about Jesus.
see, we had this summer gospels challenge. the challenge was to read through a gospel per week, every week of the summer. that meant that you would read all 4 gospels 3 times each! and that was incredible!! awesome to get into the Word and see the Word Himself come to life!
but then we finished it off with a 24-hour retreat @ twin lakes camp to reflect further on all that we learned.
the bulk of the time was scheduled teaching or experiential worship sessions, such as a passover seder, a footwashing service, a sunrise worship service, an emmaus road session, and a sermon on the mount. but the best part was, as one student put it, "we just talked about Jesus all the time, even when the session was over and we could talk about anything we wanted..." that's not a direct quote, but it hit the main idea...
even when we had some down time and could talk about anything...we ended up talking about Jesus, and what we were learning in the gospels or questions that we had as we read! what an incredible experience!!!
shouldn't we talk about Jesus like that all the time? like it should just come naturally? like we WANT to talk about Him?
great reminder of spending time with my Savior and His redeemed...all centered around HIM!
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I just remember sitting and listening to the three pastors talk about some really deep stuff... and getting lost. Still, it was awesome.
Talking about how dumb the disciples were was pretty fun too. "I think it's because we forgot the bread."
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