Who am I?

March 10, 2010

For those of us who went to the Acquire the Fire event this past weekend, we heard some powerful words from the speaker and some of us had a powerful encounter with God.  For those people and for the rest of us too, I think it’s important that we take this opportunity to dig deep into our faith.

As the Pastor for Youth and Family Ministry here at Hope, it’s my passion to share with all of the youth and families that God brings into my life.  I want to share with you this fact: “I know that there’s a God who loves me more than I can understand and this God wants to have a relationship with me and with each of you.  I am convinced that the times in my life when I have put forth effort to embrace this relationship with God, are the times when I have been the happiest, most satisfied and felt like I have purpose.  I want this for each of you too.”  That’s just my heart; that’s just who I am and that’s what I’m working on each and every day.

Along these lines, our high school youth group “the Life,” is going to be talking about some of these big questions during our Sunday night gathering.  We kicked it off this past Sunday (3/7) and we’re going to follow up on that the next two weeks (3/14 & 3/21).

This past week, our lesson included some of the following:

• Who are you?  How do you described yourself?  What’s your identity?
• Matthew 7:24-27.  What’s your foundation?
• Who is God?  Who do you understand/know God to be?
• How is your relationship with God?
• Luke 8:5-8, 11-15.  What kind of soil are you?

So, what do you think?  Who are you?  What kinds of questions are you left with?  Feel free to leave comments here and hopefully I’ll be able to respond an interact with your input, both here and through the messages as I prepare them for the coming weeks.

At Acquire the Fire, we saw the musical artist Lecrae perform.  Check out what his song “Identity” has to say on this topic.  What do you think?

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