When Jesus was on the earth, He gathered a group of young men (most of them probably teenagers) by simply telling them to "follow."
As a parent, what would you do if your sixteen-year-old son or daughter left their job mid-shift in order to follow Jesus? As a teenager, what would you do if He came into your school and simply said, "Follow"?
What would you do when it became clear that following was going to cost you everything?
Not four hours on Sunday and three more on Wednesday night; not twenty minutes a day to read from the One Year Bible; but everything.
I can't explain the logic of the Focus Month perfectly, but...[w]hy take a group of teenagers and preteens away from everything that they know as normal?
Because, sometimes, that is what it means to follow.
Brains and Boxes
Nine years ago, I sat on a dark rooftop with an uncertain and frustrated team. Frustrated by the four walls that seemed to be hemming t...
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Haiti VBS trip 2012 - Haitian Christian Mission from Jessica Mac on Vimeo .
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Nine years ago, I sat on a dark rooftop with an uncertain and frustrated team. Frustrated by the four walls that seemed to be hemming t...
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