Thank you if you read my blog last time. As I have told several people, that will be the outline of a church should God choose to let me plant one. It all seems very basic doesn't it? I mean last night in the youth group I help lead our youth pastor Ryan went over the basic principles of why we do what we do as a youth group. Afterwards I went up to him and asked him if he had read my blog becaue he had gone right down through it as our youth group mission statement. This is really going to be an exciting year. God is showing me something so big that there is know way for me to fully comprehend it right now.
Whenever Ryan came in as our youth pastor he brought with him this really cool idea of having small groups, where the leaders would all take anywhere from 5-10 kids at the end of the night and go deeper. We also went to band concerts, football games, etc. I had a fantastic group of guys. They had almost nothing in common except they were in the same grade. I thought,"This will be cool, its like a mini youth group." Which is what it was. We had a blast and so many awesome conversations. I was even excited(kinda proud) that i was one of two groups that actually was able to stay together into the next year. The other of which was my now wife's group. With our second year of small groups came a mass of changes to our group. One guy stopped wanting to come to church, one guy went to another church, and one guy was moved to another church. I was initally very torn. I was losing my group, but more importantly, my group was not at our church. This also meant that I would most likely be getting a new group this year. Well through so much prayer, and so many fantastic conversations with other leaders in our group, and church leaders in other places. God showed me just how selfish i was being. God was about to reveal something amazing.
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