Grace - 10/15/2008

Hey Fusion parents and guardians!

Tom's been in a message series called "Poser" and has been challenging your students to look at how they're living their lives. Tonight, he really felt God leading him to talk about grace, so the students wouldn't be weighed down by feeling like they have to try not be a poser on their own. If we're following Jesus, at some point in our lives, we'll all be a poser because it's impossible to do this life on our own - enter God's grace and Jesus's sacrifice! Being a poser isn't a bad thing IF you're going to do something about.

Our sin makes God angry, and we've ALL sinned and fallen short of God's standard for our lives. We're ALL posers in one way (or more than one way) or another. But God knew we would fall short, so out of His Perfect Love for us, He sacrificed His only Son to fill in the gap and satisfy His anger at our sin. So many of us have heard the story before, but tonight, Tom used two Biblical encounters with Jesus to encourage the students to ask themselves if they have chosen Jesus like the woman at the well or chosen the world like the rich, young ruler. Have you chosen Him?

There was no musical worship before the message tonight and afterward, Tom gave students time to experience worship in a different way - by getting on their knees before God. Students spent about 20 minutes praying for their own lives, their peers, their leaders, their schools, the Presidential election, the community, Benjeson and Yolanda (the kids the students sponsor through Compassion), and so much more.

And so...we ask the same of you: Pray for your student, their school community, the direction of Fusion Student Ministries and that all of us would have the courage to do something about being a poser and choose Jesus.

Scriptures used:
2 Timothy 3:1-5
Romans 3:22-26
John 4 (the women at the well)
Luke 18 (the rich, young ruler)
Isaiah 64:6-9

-Shannon