CCSM Weekend Update 12/13/09
My Playlist
“BNL Christmas album”
“Joy to the world” a Christmas album from Ed Cash, Allen Levi, and Bebo Norman.
Lesson: Born to Bleed
Talk in a Sentence: Christmas need to be less consumer and secular driven and a lot more about baby Jesus and his purpose.
Scriptures:
Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Matthew 1:18-25 (The Nativity story)
John 15:19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
Some detail from the talk: This weekend we talked about the fact that as Christians our citizenship is in heaven and we should live a bit outside the normal culture. Christmas for most folks is consumer and secular driven. While we Christians should enjoy the gifts, the lights, the color, and the magic of Christmas we need to keep our focus on Jesus. We need to celebrate the birth of Jesus, and we need to be aware of His purpose for coming to earth. His purpose is to show us a better way to live and to die so through belief in Him we can live eternally.
Game: We played a table game where I gave groups extremely wordy sentences. The groups had to figure out which Christmas Carol the sentence was about.
We also played a round of “Who wants to be a hundred-dollar-aire. The crowd got into watching this game more than I thought they would. Hallie had fun, but was a bit perturbed when she only won 10 cent.
Moment of the night: It was during my lesson that a 6th grade girl learned that Santa is not real. It was painful. As one of my leaders left the youth room he jokingly yelled back to me, “great youth group tonight, you jerk”.
What God is teaching me?
My body belongs to God, and it is my responsibility to take care of it to do his work.
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