•11:16 PM
Tonight was teaching number 2 of our purity teaching month (which is now going into March due to the fact that we had a guest speaker from El Sal last week). It went very well!
Tonight I had the youth look at love vs. lust. What is love and what is lust. I had them tell me reasons why they get interested in someone and then we looked at the list and marked the ones that were based on ourselves and not the other person's character. Because when we base it on ourselves and how we feel it is not love and will not last. Then we looked at 1 Cor 13 the verses on love. We talked about how love is a commitment and the commitment itself is like the middle stable line while our emotions are up and down all around that line.
Then we broke up into girls and guys. Girls topics tonight were 1. Homosexuality, 2. Self-Gratification, and 3. Pornography. These topics are usually in the guys topics list but rarely on the girls side so we felt it was important to include it.
We began by talking about how Satan has a counterfeit for every good thing that God has for us. He has a cheap counterfeit for marriage and sex and distorts it by using all three areas. I want to share the whole teaching but will probably bore you all but basically in the end we were talking about habitual sins and how to break the habit. We discussed how what you fill your mind with can truly cause you to stumble. Then the girls started sharing and confessing some things. They were explaining sins they had struggled with in the past and how when they read certain things, hang out with certain people etc. they are tempted to go back into it.
It was such a beautiful time a sharing and I pray very freeing for the girls. I really did not expect them to share so openly but praise God they did. One girl afterwards even talked with me and asked me to help her be accountable. It was so cool to see that of the 3 topics we were able to speak to SO many other issues as well. Sin is sin is sin is sin and I think the girls walked away with some tools on how to combat whatever sin they may be facing.
Praise the Lord!!!
Tonight I had the youth look at love vs. lust. What is love and what is lust. I had them tell me reasons why they get interested in someone and then we looked at the list and marked the ones that were based on ourselves and not the other person's character. Because when we base it on ourselves and how we feel it is not love and will not last. Then we looked at 1 Cor 13 the verses on love. We talked about how love is a commitment and the commitment itself is like the middle stable line while our emotions are up and down all around that line.
Then we broke up into girls and guys. Girls topics tonight were 1. Homosexuality, 2. Self-Gratification, and 3. Pornography. These topics are usually in the guys topics list but rarely on the girls side so we felt it was important to include it.
We began by talking about how Satan has a counterfeit for every good thing that God has for us. He has a cheap counterfeit for marriage and sex and distorts it by using all three areas. I want to share the whole teaching but will probably bore you all but basically in the end we were talking about habitual sins and how to break the habit. We discussed how what you fill your mind with can truly cause you to stumble. Then the girls started sharing and confessing some things. They were explaining sins they had struggled with in the past and how when they read certain things, hang out with certain people etc. they are tempted to go back into it.
It was such a beautiful time a sharing and I pray very freeing for the girls. I really did not expect them to share so openly but praise God they did. One girl afterwards even talked with me and asked me to help her be accountable. It was so cool to see that of the 3 topics we were able to speak to SO many other issues as well. Sin is sin is sin is sin and I think the girls walked away with some tools on how to combat whatever sin they may be facing.
Praise the Lord!!!
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