Student Life Camp Wednesday

Things are in full swing here at Student Life Camp. I think we all slept much better last night after an eventful day. Yesterday afternoon our students participated in a photo scavenger hunt. I provided them a list of things to photograph and each photo was worth a designated amount of points. The pictures were both creative and hilarious and the students seemed to really enjoy this activity. Kyle Soucy, Chance Hoff, Thomas Yeates, Caleb Sessums, and Todd Cabe finished with the most points in this activity. They were rewarded with an ice cream cone from the grill/store on campus.

On Tuesday night, Stuart Hall talked about Matthew 5:6. People so often associate blessing with material gain. Stuart also spoke about the human longing to be complete and our longing for things that are not eternal. An idea that resonates among the teenagers and adults alike is that our most powerful desire is to be accepted. We want to be "blessed". The only way to achieve this completeness, this blessed life is to be righteous. That is where we fall short because as Romans 3:10 says there is none righteous, not even one! The bar is too high for us to get over. Stuart then pointed out that the only way to get over the bar is to quit - to acknowledge our helplessness and confess that only Christ living IN us is the only way to righteousness.

This morning Stuart spoke on the need to forgive as Christ has forgiven us (Ephesians 4:30-32). He defined forgiveness as simply cancelling the debt that someone owes you. As forgiven Christians, our primary export should be forgiveness, and yet this is an issue that we all struggle with on a continual basis. Right now our students are in their family group bible study time and we'll all be eating lunch together soon. This afternoon we have some team building activities planned, and tonight will be another busy night with worship and church group time. I'm so excited to hear the comments our students are making about what God is doing in their lives this week. It doesn't hurt that we're in the mountains and the weather is incredible. We're having an awesome week that I pray will be another step on the journey for these young men and women.