From the camp booklet (page 17)
How do we see ourselves as part of the body of Christ? The CAC MYF forms a part of His body. The great thing about this is that we are not made perfect but are being perfected by the refining of the Holy Spirit.
Student – Study & be ready to enter workforce
Working – Earning power (tithe, transport, fashion, IT gadgets), resources/professionals
2 areas we would like to see while we are part of that body:
1. Looking at our MYF, how do we make the body of Christ? What function are we to be that the other parts of the body cannot do?
Help students
Offering (tithe)
Example to the youth
Bridge to the workplace
Professional knowledge
Leadership positions
2. What are some areas do you think God needs to shape (work on)?
And finally, a body cannot function if all the parts function separately. What help do we need from the church for is to be the people God desires? How do we seek this help from the church?
My learning
1. What is God's purpose for the young working adults?
2. How do we make the body of Christ?
3. What functions are we to be that the other parts of the body cannot do?
- What are the issues between youth and adults?
- Be courageous to speak up (even to the adults)
- Youth we have to earn the respect of the adults (by concerning the church as a whole)
We always think we are the YOUTH in the church, we are the MEMBERS of the but do we think that ourselves are the BODY of CHRIST?
Zoom Out (15 Sep)
From the camp booklet (page 18)
Christian organisations are the only organization that has a concern mainly for its non-members rather that its members. We are called to live for other as Christ lived for us.
1. Looking at our MYF, how have we lived out that role?
We are the body of Christ – one part rejoices, the other part rejoice. One part suffers, the other parts suffer.
2. What strengths do we possess that enable us to fulfill that role?
3. In many ways we too have failed in that role. Why? What can we do to rectify that as a body?
God works through us to refine the church and to confront the evil
My learning
You have wearied the Lord with your words. “How have we wearied him?” you ask. By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them” or “Where is the God of justice?” (Malachi 2:17)
“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty. But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the Lord will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness, and the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable to the Lord, as in days gone by, as in former years. “So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty. (Malachi 3:1-5)
We are confused by evil people being rewarded and good people being punished.
- referring to the first coming of Christ which took place already
- to refine the church and to confront the evil
- so is the Lord doing anything in our land?
- how?
- through the church of Him
- we are the body of Christ
- we church should be refining the church and confronting the evil
The 400-meter runner: father (church) and runner (non-Christian)
The needs/uniqueness of:
MIF
- Friendship
- The foundation of faith
- Simple/fundamental faith questions: What does it mean to believe in Jesus?
College/MYF
- Foundation of faith to be put into practice
- Understand what does faith mean in this “small world”
- You can afford to fail
- How to live with my non-Christian friends
Young Working Adults
- How to handle time?
- Ethics issues
- Why my boss pay me so low?
- To talk and discuss struggles and faith in the working world
- Balance life, work and ministry
- Issues with staying in parents’ house
Conclusion
1. Learn how to be kind to people
- we have to have kindness within us
- we cannot see people as a target gospel group
2. We cannot do this alone
- the body of Christ is only ONE body
- Even within our own denomination we look down on some other races
3. Look at the mirror and say that I am dead
- the reason I am living now is Christ live in me
- therefore I have lost my earthly rights
- In Christ and only to God, we live
Speaker: Brother Michael William (The Leader 19th CACMYF Conference (13-16 Sep 2014))
