After a hard fought four games of Capture the Flag, we came indoors for a discussion for our Good Hygiene series.
Luke 10:25-32
- Why didn’t the priest or Levite stop? A:They would have been deemed unclean.
- Some people disagree that we should have broken people in church. The fact is we are all broken and in need of saving. We need kids in here who don’t have it all figured out, who didn’t grow up in families like you did
- Why is this guy being a Samaritan a big deal? Samaritans and Jews hated each other. They would get in fights, kill one another, and teach future generations not to have anything to do with each other. Yet a Samaritan is the one who goes to help the beat up Jew, not even fellow Jews did that.
- He didn’t just call an ambulance, he healed his wounds, fixed him up, found a place for him to stay and paid it.
- For Mess Fest, we wanted 150 people and got 40. I’m not being mad at you or criticizing you. Honestly, I don’t think you all have been taught how to evangelize. I think we’ve either been sheltered or never fully taught how to spread the gospel.
- Around you are shirts that should have been worn by students. The question is tonight, are we going to waste food at Mess Fest, or are we going to make it worth it? We do not respond in anger or in spite, we respond in action, and the only way that Mess Fest is going to be a success is if we bring others to know Jesus. People who are messy, downtrodden and out of it.
- Next week we are going to present the very basics of the Gospel. We are going to have an evangelistic service. We want souls saved next week. So I’m begging you to make a difference. To reach the unreachable. To get your hands dirty. To find some messed up people, and bring them in. We don’t want to steal sheep, we want to find lost ones. We want these shirts to go out. Grab one of these shirts and take it to someone who is messed up, someone who is lost and in need of saving, and to bring them next Sunday. We will have loud music, we will be going all out. Let’s not worry about clean or unclean, just the person who is beat up on the side of the road of life.
Due to running out of time, we didn't get to our M&M time. Here are the questions, that we would have discussed:
Introduction
- What is the grossest thing you have ever done?
- What is the grossest thing you have ever touched?
- While there probably are some people out there who we would be afraid to touch, we don’t generally go around thinking that we would get some disease for touching someone else. In Biblical times, that was exactly the case. That’s why the story of the Good Samaritan happens. The Jewish folk don’t touch him because they don’t want to get ‘unclean’. Sadly, even after hanging out with Jesus for three years, Peter was the same way.
- Who is Cornelius? A centurion. A Roman. Someone considered to be unclean because he did not follow the dietary guidelines of the Jews, among other things.
- We find that Peter ends up and goes to Cornelius and spreads the good news.
- Is there someone, or some type of person that you feel uncomfortable around? Is there someone that you don’t feel is ‘worthy’ enough to talk to you?
- Is there someone that you know right now who does not know Jesus as their Savior? As a passer-by in the road called life, we are called to pick up those who cannot walk on their own, or who are lost.
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