Last post from the Orange Conference. Sunday will be Youth-led ... so I am devotion this post to praying for them ... for their leadership Sunday and for the fact that they will be fasting during 30-hour famine prior to their presentation on Sunday. So ... here goes:
Lord ... for our youth ... let them learn to live before they die ... let them be assured that they are fearfully and wonderfully made ... that
they were not stamped out like plastic parts ... they are formed by a
God that has made them for his special purpose ... and that purpose is
good. For our adults, let us be wise enough to not teach them our prejudice, our
apathy, our intolerance, our know-it-all answers that strip away the
mystery of a God that is complex ... let us show them the simplicity of a Gospel that is so much more straightforward than the mumbo-jumbo we
sometimes teach. Let us show our relationship to Jesus by loving God and people
... not just talk about it. They are hungry for
the truth of the Spirit and the lived-out story of a Jesus who came into
our mess and calls disciples to messy mission. May we teach them to boldly become people who will make their world better, being the salt and light of the Gospel. Thank you, Jesus, for listening and for the miracles we call our kids!
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