Michael Koelling: YR Axxess 11-11-2010

Youthrock kicked off its newest 2 week series called "The Proud Family." Pastor Mike kicks off this question of "What do you live for?" Hmm.... Something to think about honestly. Do you live to make yourself proud, to make others proud, to inspire or degrade, discourage, and disappoint them? What do you live for? The next party? the next facebook status update? (Don't hate on Youthrocks status updates now) The next relationship? The next high? The next anger filled selfish tantrum? What do you live for? We hope somewhere in there you would say that you live for your family. Family is important. It takes time, it takes energy, it takes commitment, it takes building relationships with your family members. Your relationship with your family is a great witness to the world. Witness as in modeling Jesus Christ to the lives of others. God intended the homes to be a spiritual, stability, humility, sincerity, and purity type of a home. But lets face it not everyone's home is like that or even close to it. We all struggle. We all have family issues.

The choice now is to give back to God in everything you do. Serving him through loving, teaching, training, forgiving and equipping the family. Galatians 5:16-24 gives a run down of what the sinful nature produces and what the Holy Spirit produces. We are either producing garbage or we are producing fruits of the spirit such as love, joy, peace, patients, kindness, and so on in the family and as an individual. These fruits in our lives should prove that we serve God and that we are a Christian. Our actions are important when it comes to faith. You can say everyday that you love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength but mistreat yourself, your family, your friends, or the world and we'll know you're a liar. 1 John 3:14-19(check out this passage)

God said in his word to love. Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. Love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is not just a virtue, but the basis for all being (God is Love) and the foundation for all divine law (such as the golden rule) Christians love. Christians love their families, their friends, their enemies, and the world! God plants love inside of us and us spending time in His presence will make that love grow! Christ's love is not performance based. His love is perfect, His love is honest, true, and pure. He showed us His love by dying for us and sacrificing His all!

No Family is perfect. Although we should desire to be as perfect as we can while allowing God to make changes in us is just the beginning. Ask God to make the changes and He will show you what needs to be changed and then He'll allow you the opportunities to change. He will never stop making changes in you. God changes you through worship, through reading God's word, through serving, through giving, through fasting, and through His creation...people! (1 John 1:5,6 1 John 4:17-21)

LIFE TEAM NEWS – LEGOS and DEAD BODIES!

This past Sunday Youthrock Life Team met up at 4PM in Youthrock. We went over Pastor Mike’s sermon on Dead Man Walking. First we kicked off with a game that involved Legos. That’s right, Legos. The concept of the game is as follows:

3 teams of 3 people

1 person has a picture of the lego structure and cannot show any one what it looks like. That person has to describe to the runner (person number 2) how to build it without showing the structure.

The runner has to run to person 3 (The Builder) on how to build the lego structure without helping just communicating where the pieces goes according to the instructor.

This game took us 30 mins and a couple of the teams were missing some pieces and couldn’t get it complete which was an honest mistake but was pretty funny. So we did a retry with a different design after the lesson with all the right pieces.

The Lesson we discussed about how the Romans punished murders by strapping the dead body that the murder killed on to the murderer. We talked about how difficult life would be having a dead body strapped to you. We tied that in with the sin in our life that we end up strapping on us that holds us down and leads to a road of destruction. We discussed ways how to break free from these things and how to stay free from those things.

Then we talked about the game, saying that when you don’t have the right pieces or resources to get the task done, not having the right people in your life to help you and not having the right source for answers things will get crazy in life. Even though it was an accident that the lego pieces were miscounted and caused such confusion and chaos it worked well with the lesson.

We have this and more every 1^st and 3^rd Sunday of the Month with Youthrock Life Teams. Come be a part of fun activities, open discussions where you can ask the questions and talk about stuff that goes on in your life. We encourage you students to be a part of this awesome discipleship class.

You can catch the sermon on the Youthrock iTunes podcast that is FREE!!!! This one is a must have download and will be available within the coming days. Also check out the dance team’s video that kicked off the series on Youthrocks facebook! Next week more cool stuff are on the way for week 2

Are you coming to Sleeprock this Friday Nov 5^th at 11PM? If not your missing out on a great fun filled time. This Friday night we will be hosting the annual Sleeprock! This year’s event will feature the dreaded game and Pastor Mike’s personal favorite, AGGY BALL! And there will be no medicine balls this time and cause injuries on the field. We will also be going off campus to California, MO to a big open Barn. Flash Lights may be needed if you’re scared of the Dark! There will be food, music, and so much more. Maybe a little Silent Library in the mix!

The Cost is $10 plus Permission Slip is required with Parents Signature! Event kicks off at 11PM and ends at 7AM Saturday Morning. Please Parents be here at 7AM to pick up your kids! Buses Will NOT Be Provided! We will have a complete review and rundown of SLEEPROCK next week!

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