Paint and Send a Message Around the Church

This Sunday was another successful and entertaining time with the Junior and Senior youth groups at St. John's Ida. We made pizza together with the beautiful Andrea leading the crew. We consumed the pizza together and stuffed ourselves with raw carrots. And we head off in different directions, Andrea with the seniors and myself with the juniors. I heard that a second coat of Image Blue was put on as well as the primer for the Hot Pepper and that it is looking good. With the juniors, we played a game by trying to send a message around the church from upstairs to downstairs and up the other stairs one word at a time. The worst was 3:45 with missing words in the given phrase and the best came in perfectly at 1:00. But before this, I challenged them with various questions along the lines of if Jesus would be the type to get arrested, push over tables, get people to drink more, hang out with prostitutes and give someone $2 if they asked for $1. If you're catching the spirit of what I am saying, the encouragement is not to get arrested or drunk, but to rethink the person of Jesus, who he was and what he did. He was a revolutionary in his age, and also in ours. He was strong through his weakness. He was powerful by submitting. He loved sinners and despised the proud. Imagine if we, the church, started to live like he did. Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

-Michael