Teach a Man to Fish...

So every friday night we have our youth program and i've been somewhat frustrated with the teaching times. i'm not saying that i'm upset with how things are being done by everyone else, because i'm the only one who's been teaching the jr highers. we've sort of been bouncing around and the kids hear me teach in chapels on fridays and some times on sundays, so you can only hop around and teach topically for so long. but at the same time, i didn't want to get bogged down in going through a book on friday nights because that could literally take months and we want fridays to be more of an outreach.

so when it came to last night i decided we'd go through Philippians and show the kids the flow of a book, and that the books are more than just a bunch of verses thrown together, but that they are letters with running thoughts. so we started doing that and it turned into basically going through it verse by verse and having the kids outline the book. it was awesome to hear and see the kids go through it and to challenge them to really think about the implications of what Paul was writing. talking about what growing in knowledge and discernment means.

so we ended up only getting through the introduction and encouragements, but the kids absolutely loved it. so that's what we're gonna be doing for the forseeable future. afterwards the kids were coming up to me and asking me to expain what different things meant, like fruit of our salvation. so, its great to know that they were listening and thinking about it and weren't ready to just stop thinking about it and move on. these are the moments that make you love ministry.