| | | Baptisms - August 2009 | | 5 young people decided they wanted to get baptised following a great time at Newday. So the Church headed down to L'ancresse beach.
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| Newday 2009 | | What an amazing week we had at the Norfolk Showground. The young people and the team had a great time in the presence of Jesus.
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| Gutter Party | | On a sunny May evening the young people gathered in a garden to fill a gutter with some very unhealthy food (the gutter was properly cleaned first)
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Do Hard Things - Session 5: 'That First Scary step'
After a weeks break for half term we gathered once again where the whole month of November is dedicated to looking at how to do hard things. Session 5 was all about how to break out of your comfort zones.
- The Rock Youth vision is 'To see young people living all out for Jesus.' But the vision will never be fulfilled if the young people and the leaders remain comfortable and resist breaking out into new terriority that requires faith, courage and being totally reliant on the power of Jesus Christ.
- Definition of a comfort zone: "The comfort zone is a behavioural state within which a person operates in an anxiety neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviours to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk."
- Living a life without a sense of risk is not a lifestyle Jesus wants us to live. Instead Jesus wants us to trust Him and to have a lifestyle that is regularly taking bold steps.
- We all took courage from the following verses;
1 Timothy 1:7; For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Phil 4:13; I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
- During the evening we also looked at how we need to persevere and not give up when we step out of our comfort zones. One of the greatest ways we learn in life is through making mistakes, if we're ever tempted to give up then we take courage from verses like Proverbs 24:16; "For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again."
- Looking through the Bible you read about so many people who trusted God, kept moving forward and taking new paths in their lives.
- Best example is Jesus, He had to keep moving forward even when He was abandoned by his friends, then as He was nailed to a cross, Jesus' Heavenly Father had to turn away from His Son as Jesus took our sin. But 3 days later Jesus rose from the dead and because of what Jesus has done for us, then if ask for forgiveness and allow Jesus into your life, then we have been set free and have no need to fear anything!
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." Corrie Ten Boom
- During the evening we interviewed Chris Mclean via Skype. Chris lives on the outskirts of Toronto, Canada and back in 2002 started a new church called 'Kings Family Church.' Chris shared with us how through trusting Jesus and stepping out of his comfort zone he overcame many fears and challenges. One of the greatest challenges was to move the Mclean family of 6 from England to a place where you don't know anyone and as such having to start again!
Chris Mclean who leads King's Family Church in Oakville, Canada.
Another new member of the band, it's great to see so many young people getting involved
One of the young people came to Do Hard Things wearing a jumper with this quote printed on it!
"True courage is not the absence of fear. It is refusing to allow fear control your actions" P77 of the Do Hard Things book |
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 | Paul Le Page | 06/11/2009, 11:59 | | A timely kick in the plumbs to the cotton-wool culture of total risk avoidance!
Great successes never came without risk....what if the likes of Christopher Columbus or Marco Polo had said they were too scared and stayed at home? Or from a Christian perspective the likes of David Livingstone, Jackie Pullinger or (a bit closer to home) Bob Glover?
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