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Sara remembers her parents insisting that she and her sister attend Sunday school and church each week. To be honest Sara was less than enthused. "I always would complain and say that church was boring and not worth my time," she remembers telling her parents. "I would go to church and mostly follow the rules," Sara explains, "but only listen to what I wanted hear."
When she was in middle school it became harder for be a Christian. "Sermons and Sunday school teachers were knocking on my brain" she says of that time. By the time she was in high school she admits that she could not hide any longer. "I saw the path I was taking and had to make a choice of which way to live."
She attended a weekend retreat with the other teenagers from her church. The first night she entered the small chapel and something transforming happened to her. The songs were speaking to her, the message tugged at her heart. She went back to her room the next day when no one was around and she says, "I cried out to Jesus. I poured my heart and lift my life on the table for God to take."
"That day in August I gave my life to Jesus Christ." This is amazing insight from a young woman.
On Christ the King Sunday we reflect on our relationship with Jesus Christ. People through the ages have wrestled with who Jesus is. In today's lesson we find these descriptive words, "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers -- all things have been created through him and for him."
Tim S.
When she was in middle school it became harder for be a Christian. "Sermons and Sunday school teachers were knocking on my brain" she says of that time. By the time she was in high school she admits that she could not hide any longer. "I saw the path I was taking and had to make a choice of which way to live."
She attended a weekend retreat with the other teenagers from her church. The first night she entered the small chapel and something transforming happened to her. The songs were speaking to her, the message tugged at her heart. She went back to her room the next day when no one was around and she says, "I cried out to Jesus. I poured my heart and lift my life on the table for God to take."
"That day in August I gave my life to Jesus Christ." This is amazing insight from a young woman.
On Christ the King Sunday we reflect on our relationship with Jesus Christ. People through the ages have wrestled with who Jesus is. In today's lesson we find these descriptive words, "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers -- all things have been created through him and for him."
Tim S.
