This is my story, this is my song.

Opening

Bible Trivia

Review of the week

What is coming up for you this week?

Before prayer, update from Tony.

I just wanted to let you know what happened on Monday evening after we returned from Cumming. At around 7 pm, I went to take out the trash. A U-Haul was parked near the trash dump, and a man was throwing away a large bag. He shoved the bag over, and, as he turned around, I saw that it was the guy who had punched me on Thursday night. He saw me and walked up to me. He told me he was glad to see me because he wanted to tell me something. He found a Bible that Jamar had left for him, and he read it all weekend. On Sunday night, around the time that Vision had been praying for him, He accepted Christ as His Savior. He told me he had lost his job in LaGrange, and was into drugs, homosexuality, and even witchcraft. The bag he threw away was all of the above-mentioned stuff, and he didn't want that in his life anymore. He told me he was moving to Macon, GA , and would be living with his brother, who apparently is a worship leader at a church there. He was going to find a job, and pay back what he owed to the guy who leased the apartment (there is a third roommate who works nights!). He told me that LaGrange is an evil place, and he needed to leave the city to avoid the influence, so he packed up his stuff in the U-Haul, and was leaving at the moment. He left a note to the third roommate (who doesn't even know what in the world is happening), and told him that there was a preacher in the apartment complex that he needed to find and talk to so he could also know the truth. I prayed with him (his name is Malik (Maleek), and he got in his U-Haul, and drove off.

Just wanted to let you and Vision know what happened the day after we got back, and how the Lord is wrapping up this continuing narrative.

Lesson

Resolve: In my purpose statement for our time together each each I have added to my list of objectives to give you a reminder that this is real to us and we love Jesus.

Story / Told this week of a youth group that hears lesson after lesson but seems to get colder and colder to the things of God. Such a dangerous place for them to be in. Sun melts wax and hardens clay.

“A personal testimony trumps arguments when they’re bad arguments — and they’re all bad when they’re against Jesus.”

John 9:18-25 “18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. 19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? 20 His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: 21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. 22 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. 23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. 24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. 25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.”

Do you confess Christ openly and defend him with your simple testimony, ‘I was blind, and now I see’?

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1 When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of glory died, my richest gain I count but loss, and pour contempt on all my pride.

2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast save in the death of Christ, my God! All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them through his blood.

3 See, from his head, his hands, his feet, sorrow and love flow mingled down. Did e'er such love and sorrow meet, or thorns compose so rich a crown?

4 Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were a present far too small. Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

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