Treasure

I'm still excited and feeling energetic about what is happening at Christ Church on Wednesday Nights.  We are in week 4 of entourage, and are going to be looking at why we follow Jesus.  The disciples ask Jesus in Matthew 18 who will be the greatest, not understanding the ultimate goal of following Jesus.  We don't follow Jesus because of what we get from him, we follow Jesus because Jesus is what we get.  My prayer for our student ministry has and is that God opens our students eyes to the truth of the Gospel, and that irresistible grace inflames their souls with a passion to know and love God through the propitiation of Christ on the Cross.  I hope they begin to want more than to check church off and live life for themselves.  I want badly for the treasure that a relationship with Christ is becomes the focus of their lives and they glorify God.  This week we will be exploring what Jesus means when he says that the disciples need to have faith like a child.  We will talk about what it looks like to love God as a teenager in a culture that makes it so difficult to seek holiness and the person of Christ.  Continue to pray for the souls of our students with me, that they would see God as loving King, and not angry cosmic killjoy.  I pray God will make us excited about him.