Getting to the Heart of Cancel Culture
Jesus understands your pain and rejection. And yet, he remained faithful to complete his mission, even while praying on the cross, “Father, forgive them. They do not know what they are doing”.
Jesus understands your pain and rejection. And yet, he remained faithful to complete his mission, even while praying on the cross, “Father, forgive them. They do not know what they are doing”.
In Jesus, we have been sealed by the Holy Spirit into the love of God poured out to us through Christ (Rom. 5:5). Jesus is our sustaining hope, and the only hope we have to offer teenagers in this present time of suffering.
The Lord was able to take a hard, very 2020 experience, and use it for good as we took what was once painful and used it to minister to others who would come to the same journey later.
Today God has given you your daily bread, your new mercy, your sufficient grace. You don’t need tomorrow’s portion today. You can trust it will be there when you wake.
In one way or another, our students will be faced with reconciling suffering and the “good life.” As youth pastors, we need the resources of the gospel to point teenagers to a biblical perspective on suffering.
The more I think about it, the more my Christian experience seems out of touch with the biblical narrative of hardship.
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