High Schoolers fighting slavery

Had the opportunity to preach this past week in Woodstock, GA.  What a great night!  First of all, the youth facilities were freaking awesome.  I mean, I’ve been to many churches that are not that well equipped.  It was a great service of worship and the Spirit of God was really moving.  Worship was led by all students.  Before I got up to speak they had a few students who were being recognized for their active involvement in impacting their culture for Christ.  It was awesome.  Those are a couple future Centurions in the making.

The text I shared from was Isiah 58.  Going into the preparation time, I thought God was leading me to discuss the cultural trend of “Social Justice” movements and how they are not new.  In fact the idea of Justice, is a very Biblical and  Godly theme.  That ended up being a little bit of the talk, but the text really spoke more about how our actions have to match up with our hearts to honor God.  If we claim to worship but our hearts our not right, then God is not pleased.  Then, if we go on with our lives and do not care about the injustice in the world, God is not pleased either.

It was awesome to see students come up one by one or in small groups to pray at the alter.  God is using groups like this all over the country to change the world.  As a group they donated over $600 to the Free Chains Campaign!  That was a bunch of high schoolers.  What are you doing about the injustice in the world?

Here are some shots from Jeff of the night.