Tuesday: Day Two

Now we are getting in the routine of things here at camp, which means we sort of know where to go but we just don’t know at what time. Don’t worry we will get this schedule down by Friday J Today’s theme was Soaked. Now just to review the week’s theme is washed which is an act of God, by grace, to cleanse our hearts from the stain of sin. Monday’s theme was stained which showed how we are in need of a Savior because of the stain of sin in our lives. Todays theme, soaked, which shows how God makes people righteous through the “soaking” of his grace, which we are saved by. The main teaching today was amazing! Dustin Schadt taught from Revelation 5. Yesterday he painted a picture of how God is holy from Revelation and then taught today about how Jesus is God through Revelation 5. In this passage, there is a scroll that is sealed and there is no one found in heaven or on earth or under the earth that could open it or even look inside it. In verse 4 John, the author, begins to weep because there is no one worthy to open the scrolls. BUT, one of the elders says, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.” Dustin continued to walk us through this chapter and continued to point to the fact that Jesus is God and he is the purpose of life.

Students are enjoying Dustin’s preaching and they are even opening up and communicating what they think, how they feel, what God is doing in their lives. Students love their POIs. Some students today got to do messy games, which is a huge mud pit where they play different games. Needless to say everyone’s showers are now clogged with mud and dirt. Other students are tubing, zip lining, bazooka ball, icing on the cake, etc.

Something was said in Adult Leader Bible Study that struck me to the core today. He said that if the only thing that the students got out of the week was that they had fun doing lake sports, zip lines, and bazooka ball, then we have failed at our mission. We want the students to have a fun time, don’t get me wrong, but we want them to grow in their relationship with the Lord. I would ask that you continue to pray for the hearts of our students. We have a wide range of students. Some students are on fire for the Lord and are ready to charge hell with a water pistol. Some students have a head knowledge of who God is but they have yet surrender their hearts to him, whether that be that they are too cool for it or they think they are waiting until they become a better person, or a number of reasons. And then there are some students who at times seem like progress is being made and then other times they are fleeing from the Lord, literally. One of our students cannot sit for 15 minutes and do their TAWG (Time Alone With God) they have to get up and leave the room to go to the bathroom or to get some water. I just ask that we will pray that the love of God compels them just as 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 reveals to us.

“For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.”