Our annual high school fall retreat is a wrap! We had an amazing time, great worship, fun games, solid small group times, three messages, all the camp activities … it was a blast! I always come away from the retreats completely drained but happy.
Our theme this year was Surrender. We looked at the life of the apostle Paul, from who he was before he met Jesus, to his encounter on the Damascus road, to being sent out afterward. Our connecting thread through all three messages was Galatians 2:20, where Paul writes that his old self was crucified with Christ and Christ now lives in him.
Friday night Ben Cura talked about surrendering the life we build for ourselves, including the good plans we make without ever asking God about them. Saturday night we looked at surrender as a trade, not a loss, and what Paul actually received when he gave up everything he’d been. Sunday morning Melissa Stein brought it home to being sent, and we closed the weekend with student baptisms. Here are some follow up questions you could ask your student(s):
- Which did you hear that stood out to you the most this weekend? Why?
- Sunday’s message was that Jesus doesn’t just save people, He sends them. Where do you think you’re already sent?
- What was it like to hear and watch the testimonies and baptisms? What can you learn from them?
You can watch the messages below, or you can listen to them on our podcast feed: