Summit 1 - Encourged to Testify
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You’ll often hear me saying, I don’t like kids.
And everyone always thinks I’m joking.
And perhaps no-one will ever know either way what the truth is!
But one way or another Kids are hard work - as we’re about to find out over the next few days.
Infact, if there was ever a verse we could take slightly out of context - but still apply rightly for camps, it would be
So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God.
That is what we are doing here at Summit.
We are unashamedly testifying about our Lord.
Of course, most of camp, for most of us, will be thoroughly enjoyable.
It’s hardly the hardest way to spend a few days, and hardly the hardest way to tell people about Jesus.
It’s certainly not the suffering Pual is referring too!
The youth expect us to speak of our Lord - most of them really want it!
So let us not hide the light of Jesus under a bucket.
Take meal time opportunities, activity down time, bibles study time, to ask and speak of him. Our Lord.
Timothy had a specific gift of evangelism, but we know that all through the NT we are expected to be God’s mouth peice on earth,
So, v6 applies to us too.
2 Timothy 1:6 (NIV 2011)
For this reason (and the reason is that Timothy is christian who believes) I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
Because you’re a Christian, evangelise - tell the memebers this week all about him - for he is our Lord.
And why woudn’t we..
He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Saviour, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
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