Sunday was a busy day for the student ministry! Sunday morning I was so excited to be able to take a both the Jr. and Sr. high students and have some time to teach on the importance of having a biblical perspective when it comes to dating/relationships.
I believe that have a Christ-centered perspective on dating/relationships is so important for students to be committed to having well before they begin the process. My hope Sunday morning was to outline some Biblical principals that would lay a foundation to help the students whenever they begin that process.
The first thing we covered was "What is the Purpose of my Life?" The reason we started by answering this question is because if we don't clearly understand what the answer to this question, we wont have the ability to do anything else well! We looked at a few passages but settled in at Isaiah 43:7 which clearly states that we were created for Gods glory. Since we are created for His glory our primary purpose is to Glorify God in all aspects of our life including relationships.
Another thing we spent a good amount of time was explaining to the students that they are under their parents authority and need to abide by the rules their parents have set in place whether or not the students agree with them. I explained, using Psalms 139:16 that God not only created us, but placed us exactly where he wanted us, and when we complain or choose not to follow our parents rules we are in fact telling God "I don't trust you" because God's Word clearly states that he is the one who has placed us under our parents authority!
We spent the rest of the morning looking at what we should look for in the person that we will one day marry and came up with a list of non-negotiable standards that we would set. That list included:
1. Passionately loves the Lord
2. Trustworthy
3. Kind (physically and emotionally)
4. The guy needs to be able to lead (motivated) and the Girl needs to be willing to follow
5. Committed to purity
6. Committed to you and the Lord!
All in all it was a great morning and I trust and pray that the Lord will do a great thing through the lives of all of our students!
Cal
Nicely done, Cal. What was the response of the students?
ReplyDeleteGreat job, Cal. And perfect timing for our family this week.
ReplyDeleteresponse from the students for the most part was good...there are some middle school guys who dont even know what girls are yet so i knew it would be over there head but that was inevitable
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