Learnings

Just got back from CLCN camp late on Wed Night. It was a great time there, though it would it have been better if Matz had come along :)

 

Awesome time of fellowship - EVERYONE there is super cool and super nice. The pastors there are fantastically pastoral. The folks there were geninuely serving and eagar to serve in their various ministries.

 

I was assigned by Ps Mark to the Young Working Adults group and it was an amazing mix of people. we had one church with 100++ YWA and 1 church that had just 7. Yet the spirit was the same. they had such a burden for this generation.

 

I've served in Youth for so long, that sometimes I forget the struggles of being in my own age group :p

 

Many of them agreed that IDENTITY (or lack of) is a real problem for my generation. We go out to work and often many lose their souls there. Even for those that stay in church, there are still problems.

 

YWA are probably one of the great untapped groups within many churches or organisations. We're young, but old enough now to take on greater responsibility, we have our own ideas, we can think for ourselves, we have spending power, we have the passion and energy to move and make things happen.

 

Yet it seems many are just living in the borderlands.... by that I mean never entering into the fullness of LIFE & POTENTIAL that God has for us. Some just play it safe, earn their living and barely tasting life, struggling just trying to exist day to day.

 

Others end up building their own kingdoms, chasing money & materialism and obviously enjoying the fruit of that.

 

I think it was Kong Hee that said:

 

People rise to the level of their dreams

 

sometimes many of us forget to dream, we just hit into CRUISE and follow the CROWD or we CHASE the CASH.

 

Many times the transitions are too much for us to bear. Marriage, Money, Mate, Materialism, Ministry - so many things either consuming our attention and energy or confusing us with the avalanche of choices.

 

Can this generation, my generation find our dreams again?  Can we rise up and make a difference and live, really live?

 

 ³⁸As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. ³⁹She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. ⁴⁰But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!"

 ⁴¹"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, ⁴²but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."

Maybe...at the feet of the Master, we can hear again, those dreams and hopes from the not too distant past.