We have officially reached the halfway point of the
summer. It’s remarkable to consider all
that God has done so far and how we still have five more weeks to experience
His good pleasure through this Leadership Institute. We’ve been able to experience 19 different
speakers, dinner in the home of three Mercy Street staff members and their
families, six field trips, and over 50 different elementary-schoolers coming to
Super Thursdays. We’ve addressed such
themes as the Gospel, how to live out our faith, global missions, and Biblical
manhood and womanhood.
It’s hard to believe that five weeks have already slipped
by, but when I think back on bank trips, church visits, and a day at the
waterpark, I wonder how everything fit into such a short amount of time!
At the beginning of the summer, Garrett read to us several
passages of Scripture about singing a new song to the Lord and challenged each
of us to sing a new song to God this summer.
It’s been encouraging to watch students turn over new leaves as they
choose to sing a new song. They are
choosing to spend a summer pursuing Christ instead of pursuing destructive
passions. They are choosing to serve and
not to be served. They are choosing to
be lights in dark places.
Praise God for His relentless love and for His
transformational grace. Please pray that
the interns will continue to “drop their nets” in the pursuit of Christ and
that they will choose to sing a new song this summer.
Let the peace of
Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to
peace. And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell among you
richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms,
hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed,
do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father
through him. – Colossians 3:15-17
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