Saturday, October 06, 2007

Teens and Missions


Tomorrow I speak during our missions moment to highlight our teens doing "Service Projects." To be honest, I'm struggling with this.

I want our students to serve. I want them to be the Hands and Feet of Jesus. So what is the problem?

I don't want this to become "Look what great teens we have" and pat ourselves on the back but rather look what God is doing through our Teens - follow their example and be Jesus to others as well.

Maybe that is how I'll phrase it. Serve because the greatest Servant of All came to serve as well.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

That's something I struggle with myself. They deserve recognition but all too often it goes overboard! Some people tell me that means I don't really have a heart for teens! But, my goal is to not make them feel superior to everyone else and to remind them that they have to be in the trenches as well.

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