1 Corinthians 12:25-27 One of the biggest problem in some churches, is that they just don’t care about one another. One of the things I set out to do in our youth ministry, is to ensure that my youths are loved in New Life Baptist Church. Our team is committed to showing Christs love to those who attend in practical and tangible ways. We need to be there for each other people. We need to care about one another. Some are easy like a word of encouragement to someone beside you. Some are a little tougher like when someone has a terminal illness and we being there for them and their family. Or when someone is going through the loss of a loved one, how can we be there for them with our presence. When someone stumbles we need to stoop over and help them up and not scramble over them in an effort to get to forward with our own lives. Sometimes Christians act as if sin is contagious and instead of trying to restore a brother or sister who has fallen in sin, we avoid them as if they had the plague. We may not amputate a wounded member of our church family, but if we don’t administer first aid and just ignore it, in time it will die and fall off. What happens when a part of your physical body gets hurt? If you hit your thumb with a hammer, what happens? Well actually several things happen all at once. Your mind registers pain, tears come to your eyes, you grab said thumb with your other hand and you commence to jump up and down… all the while, words rush forth from your mouth. Of course the nature of those words being entirely dependent on your present spiritual condition... What happened? Even though it was just one very small, very insignificant part of your body that was hurt, many other parts of your body became involved in an attempt to lessen the pain. And so when one part of the body of Christ hurts it is each of your responsibility as additional parts of the same body to help lessen the pain. It may be hurt that comes with the death of a loved one, results failure, BFF’s betrayal. It may be that they have given into temptation and need to be loving restored to the body. The responsibility lies not only with the pastor, or with the leaders, or with the person next to you. It lies with you. I believe that a successful church isn’t just about its size. It isn’t just about critical mass. Don’t get me wrong. Size is important. When we have a critical mass in the youth ministry, we can do more things for God. When our youth ministry grows, it means more unsaved young people came to know Christ. Size is important but it’s not the most important for me. For me, the most important thing about the youth ministry and the church - is to see how the everyone loves one another. Because John 13:34-35 says “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” If you love one another, it is because you have grown deeper in love with God (as His disciple). When you love one another, people will come to say “Man! This group is different! I want to be with them!” So where you at? What role will you play? What member of the body will you become? What function will you perform? How will you help to make the body what it ought to be? Someone in this youth ministry needs you!
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 05:39:09 +0000
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