This past week in our Student Ministry:
THIRD PLACE: "Jesus as God"
We began our study of the Life of Christ, and week one was examining Jesus' nature: 1oo percent God, 100 percent man.
We talked about how there a lot of things about God that we can't wrap our minds around, and near the top of the list is how Jesus can be 100 percent God and 100 percent man. But He is.
We covered C.S. Lewis' "Tri-lemma" (Lord, Liar, Lunatic), and also went over some of the major heresies through the ages concerning who Jesus is.
Another important thing we covered is that God is not surprised by our doubts and questions, and instead He desires that we cry out to Him with our disbelief, so that He by His grace can strengthen our faith.
We ended by writing down some of the things we believe about Jesus, as well as some of the questions we have for Jesus, and then sealed them up. I have them in my office and will give them back after our series in the Life of Christ is complete.
LUCID: "God's Masterpieces"
First thing we did was look at famous works of art and come to the conclusion that these masterpieces had significant value because of the artist - who designed them. Likewise, we discussed that we all have tremendous value not because of anything intrinsic in us, but because of who our Creator is.
One of the biggest problems we have as humans is how self-centered we are. We often have such a distorted view of ourselves - either we think of ourselves too highly, or too lowly, and both lead us to sin.
Instead of looking at ourselves, we need to focus more on our God, and so we spent some time in Psalm 95 considering how God is our:
1) MAKER/CREATOR
2) KING
3) SAVIOR
4) SHEPHERD
In the end, we are God's sheep, which is both humbling and precious all at the same time.
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