Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Let's value human life
Over the next 5 weeks, my prayer is that this blog will be filled with ideas, thoughts, reactions, resources, links and ongoing discussion about how we can better value human life. We can use this blog to discuss the messages from Highlife, post ideas of how we can better value others, share testimonies of things we have done to better value life and just ask questions. Let's use this place to take what we learn on Wednesday and keep the dialogue going throughout the week. This blog can be more than just a bunch of words. It can be about a group of people who desire to take the things they learn at Highlife and apply it to life. So, let's fill up some pages with some good discussion on how we can clothe ourselves with immortality as we together try and value human life the way that God values human life. Just click on the "comments" below and start typing.
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i am stoked about this new series. and i am very interested in next weeks lesson comparing creation to evolution. i hope that this blog spot can be the start of something good, and i think its a really good idea
hey,
im actually learning about evolution in biology right now and i have a pretty chill teacher... so ive kinda been putting my OPINION (beliefs)about evolution, on some of my papers. =] (mostly about... how it isnt really real and how God created EVERYTHING!) so thats been good fun, but im definitely excited for this new serious. its going to be intense!! i already know...that the suicide talk is going to affect alot of people. but im so glad that your being "bold" [i think is the right word] and talking about it with a bunch of high school students who live with realities like that everyday. its awesome.
Looking forward to seeing some good discussions here :)
I just want to encourage anyone who is feeling like they aren't good enough, whether it be in your family or with your friends or whatever it is...lately I've been feeling that a lot in my family and like I have no worth there and tonight was amazing just to realize again just how much value we all have to God...I'm stoked about this series and I hope we can all encourage and build each other up and truly live for Him every moment of every day!!! I hope this is the start of something great....let's change the world for Him!!!!
When I think about valuing human life it usually surfaces in my mind about huge issues in the world like Adam mentioned tonight. However, I was challenged tonight to think about valuing human life in a day to day way, starting with myself and those around me. I want to see less sarcasm in my world and more care and concern come from my life. More encouragement and more positive than negative. I want to bless others around me and show them I value them by what I say and how I reach out to encourage instead of making a joke at them or about them. So many people spend most of their time ripping on their friends. One group of girls I know are just a tight group but they are very sarcastic with each other. They would be funny but inside over half of these girls were struggling with eating disorders, or hating things about themselves that others in the group were poking fun at. It just pained me to see their best friends aiding to the problem instead of helping. Just joking has gone too far!! So for me I want to value human life by giving a mere compliment, by seeing each day as a "glass is full kind of day" and by encouraging till I can't stop.
I love God. I was totally excited about this new series that Adam is started and i know there will some seriously emotional couple of weeks ahead. Something that was really amazing was what adam was saying tonight...he was saying that God created humans in his image. everyone, not just Christians. even the people who completely hate him, he gave them and STILL loves them. I think that if we invested and spent more time helping others that it would really benefit us. Instead of being so self centered for one day and thinking about how stressed we are, or our bad hair day, or upcoming weekend, maybe we could just love others. take time and listen, it will be amazing.
remember to just love everyone because it will be a big benefit in the end.
I love everyone! WAY past time to go to bed.
Ok, so I was talking to Cory last week about how much God loves us, and I was super excited when Adam started talking about that at youth group. I thought I should tell everyone, that the way I see it, if we ever really figured it out how much God loves us, like really figured it out, we would probably pee our pants. Haha. Thought I should share that with you.
I also want to say to anyone who is having a hard time and is just ready to give up, whether it be in school, or at home, or anything at all, don't give up. Don't lose hope. The best is yet to come.
Love you guys!! ♥
Woo! I'm so crazily pumped for this series! My teacher, unlike Corrie's, is very against the religon thing and is very inconsiderate which annoys me. :/ [but hey, she's immortal] so I'm hoping I can get a tighter grip on what exactly were up against. And this blogspot thing is a wonderful idea, good going you guys!
Well, must please the mom and clean my room now :)
Love you ABC
Wow! I'm totally stoked about this new series! I guess I never really thought about the fact that God sees us as immortal, so that really challenged me this week. I sincerely hope that through this blog and new series, we can as a youth group, show the community that we're on fire for Christ, and that we care about the problems that surround us in the world. I can't wait to hear about the whole Creation vs. Evolution thing. Thanks, Adam, for creating this blog!
Hey guys. It's been awesome to read all your comments. I hope you have begun to value human life more and more. Do any of you have any stories of somehow valuing human life this past week? I have one...I was on my way to the ABC men's bbq on Thursday night and passed a couple of homeless guys and this series about valuing human life was going through my head. I ended up turning around and inviting them to the bbq and I got to sit around a table and eat with them and then I invited them in to the church after the bbq where they were having music and a speaker. The two guys hung around and ended up raising their hands to receive Christ at the end of the night. All I did was step out in valuing human life more than I normally would (I would have normally passed them by and not invited them) and then God did the rest. When we begin to look at others with immortal eyes, things sure do change. I just hope that after this series is over that I don't forget to keep valuing human life the way God does.
Has this "immortal" thing spurred anyone else toward anything cool? I'd love to hear about it.
well.. I'm super stoked to hear the rest of this series. It's going to be deep and chalenging to my faith and how I live life daily. It's truely amazing how God can work through people and in your life. Life can get pretty ridiculously stressful, and it is nice to have something as amazing as God to fall back on at the end of the day. I don't know how people without God can get by. Well I'm excited to hear God speak through you Adam. Love to all!
In response to Adam's question, yes there have been several opportunities for me to value human life this week.....I have a tendency to gossip, which I absolutely hate about myself, and almost every girl I know has this problem as well (girls talk, if you didn't know lol). Anyways, I got to thinking that if I was talking about somebody in a not very godly way, I was devaluing human life. If every person was made in God's image, including the people I talk about, talking badly about them would essentially be bashing on God's creation and not valuing human life as I should. It was really convicting and this week I've had so many opportunities to gossip and I've really made an effort to take myself out of those situations and to memorize Scripture that talks about controlling what you say, and it's really helped. I've just been learning a lot about what it means to honor others and die to my own needs and selfishness.
God has been showing me alot of things lately and it's shocking how much I disregarded the actual fact of human life. Not that I didn't care, but that I never really noticed and thought about the workmanship put into us by God himself. Going through these series has been emotional for me on many levels. What I've realized, though, is that no matter my past, present, or future, my daddy up in heavy has me in the palm of his hand guiding me. Like Adam said, he knows the end result, we don't. I'm way excited to see where these series end up going! Can't wait till next week.
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