Youth Ministry
Tonight, we'll continue in our new series called "Profit" about the vital need that our identity be firmly grounded and rooted in God's Word alone and the urgent need to be serious about our faith now, setting plans and patterns for this school year and beyond for our students. I'll talk about the subtlety and seduction of the enemy and how he will seek to attack and erode the students' worldview in these 7 areas: 1) Understanding of Truth, 2) Purpose and Identity, 3) Destroying the Family Structure, 4) Distractions and Addictions, 5) Promotion of Shallow or False Religion, 6) Fear of Man, and 7) Delayed Obedience and Doubt. I plan on dismantling these areas of attack and putting in their place ways in which the students can seek to redeem them, for God's glory! Tonight, we'll talk about the second point, "Purpose and Identity." Please continue praying with me that the Lord would use this to bless our students this school year.
"For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits his soul?" - Luke 9:25
Xalt Youth is a weekly group for the middle and high school students of Forrester Community Church. We believe that those in our church in the youth ages shouldn't be relegated to a separate entity or with an unnecessary division or segregation from the rest of the church body, but rather a vital part of it, and we strive to build that into both the parents as primary disciplers of those in the youth, as well as in the youth themselves so they grow in understanding their role(s) in the body of Christ in healthy ways as they mature in their faith. We don't view Wednesday nights as an event for parents to drop their kids off for Patrick or any of the youth leaders to be the primary discipler of their children, but would rather come alongside the parents in our church to serve them in ways to promote healthy and ongoing discipleship in the home, and then let Wednesday nights serve as an additional (though focused, certainly), mid-week Bible study, encouragement, and fun for them. And we certainly also encourage our youth to invite friends (what a great way for some to hear the Gospel who may otherwise not) to come, but our aim is to focus first on our youth, and then strive for ways to help serve those who may come whose families aren't covenanting members of our church.