4) Wednesday Evening

• 7:00pm - all MS and HS students.  We'll be together at the beginning for worship and announcements and fun, and then we'll split up into separate MS/HS classes.

• Here is a quick summary of our class from this past Wed night.  We won't share this every week, but if you are interested, here is some info: 
  -We talked about Jesus being the true source of live.  We are who we are because our identity is in Christ.  What we do (our sport or hobby or talent) is not who we are.  We can only find life in Him, even though it's so tempting to try to find our meaning and identity in so many other things.  God has blessed each person with specific gifts and abilities and talents (and Spiritual Gifts) and we are so thankful for those, but those are blessings from God - those are not our identities.  
  We dug into John 6:68-69, which says:    Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.   We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
  and we looked at Acts 4:9-14, which says:   If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.  Jesus is “ ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’  Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”  When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus.  But since they could see the man who had been healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say.
   

We then gave two examples of some people who have found their identity in Christ instead of what they do.  One of those is the QB at Baylor University, Sawyer Robertson.  Two quotes we shared from him are:
“I don’t play football for popularity or anything like that.  I play football because it’s a platform for me to spread positivity [from God] and be a light for other people and just be a witness for Jesus Christ.”    ...and... 

“My whole mindset is I’m going to use the talents and the abilities that God has given me as a football player to glorify Him, to glorify Jesus as best I can, to bring attention to what Jesus did on the cross.  And then the rest of it kind of takes care of itself.” 
And here is a link to his instagram...notice the way he uses his social media to share his faith.    https://www.instagram.com/sawyerrobertson_

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We also talked about Jelly Roll, and his recent song with Brandon Lake called "Hard Fought Hallelujah."  A few months back, he sang "I Believe" with Brooks and Dunn at the Academy of Country Music awards in Nashville.  In a recent interview with KLOVE radio and Brandon Lake, Jelly said how they could have sung any Brooks and Dunn song, "Boot Scoot'n Boogie", "Red Dirt Road", "Neon Moon" or anything else.  But they chose "I Believe" because it focused on who God is in their life.  Brandon Lake said that song at the ACM awards was so incredible because Jelly Roll turned the moment into a place of worship - and it was at a place where worship definitely does not usually happen.  Here is a link to the video of them singing, which is worth watching...and notice the words of the song and the response of those who were there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLZk5I-t5FE

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