Youth Group in the Bathroom

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"Year of the Bible" Q&As ARE BACK! Keep reading for the Pastor's Reflection. . .

Here's the question of the day:
Monday: What is Ezekiel supposed to do with his hair when the days of the siege end? (Ezek 5)
(Check back for the answer tomorrow and get another question of the day)

And here's the reflection of the day:
Ah, James 1 brings back some memories for me. I was a Youth Director for three years while I was in college. And in some ingenious youth ministry book (I really don't think I could have come up with this on my own), I found a lesson dealing with verses 22-25:

22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it-- he will be blessed in what he does.

So I got to the church early and dragged as much furniture as I could into the women's restroom that was next to our room. Where else was I going to find a big enough mirror for everyone to see themselves in, right? So we did the opening stuff and then I made them all go into the bathroom and take a seat.

We talked about looking in the mirror and how much and how often we look at ourselves in the mirror. (Teenagers, remember?!) And we talked about how we never really forget what we look like, even when we're not looking in the mirror. And we talked about how studying the Bible only does us good when we REMEMBER what we've studied!

We must be do-ers of the Word, not just read-ers of the Word. We start with the reading (hence things like the "Year of the Bible") and THEN we move on to the doing. Verse 25 promises that the one who is a do-er of the Word will be blessed.

As we count down the last 59 days of the "Year of the Bible," go stand in your bathroom and look at yourself in the mirror. Think about how you can be a d0-er of the Word!