Saturday, January 20, 2007

"youth conferance" oh dear oh dear

i don't think that the people who organised the youth confrance that i was at today have quite got the idea.
it was well dull is a word that would decribe it wrong is another word missleading another and inaproperate for young people.
the topic looked good conquoring your thoughts the sub points were good at the heart of all sin is a thought you had to think of doing something before you do it. went through negative things that can happen to make you think negative thoughts and different things that we have to avoid to keep our minds clean. yup it could have been brill.
but there was no oppurtuity for disscusion the young people including myself where made to sit and listen to this guy from singapour talk at them for three hours with at the end of each of his bit another guy getting up and going over the first guys points again arrrrrrrrrrg.
there was also some serouse problems with the theology that was being tort it may have been langwige barriors but at times it felt like our percher (couse thats all he could be described as) was saying god stops loving people when they sin! that we should be completely seprate from the world ie go into the christian bubble and never come out to talk to none christians and so forth.
at the breif time that was given for feedback questions no one spoke exsept a stupid old dude with a really stupid question about angles which was anwered really badly. clearly none of the young people had really engaged with the topic in hand.

it frustraits me so when i go to stuff like that because it could be so good if i or any of my follow students had been given the reins there could have been disscusion more questions more intresting ways of persenting the information and we could also have made sure the dude was not gonna spote rubbish that just confusses the young poeple.

i would also have had a jargon buster session he used terms like fear of god exspecting the young people to know exsatly what it meant and i know for a fact that i did not know what that meant when i was a young person.
fyi it means

What does walking in the fear of the Lord mean? It certainly does mean to worship with reverence and awe. But it means to live in fear of displeasing the Lord. ...... but let me exsplain what i mean. a deep true fear of God will keep you from comitting adultery - because of what it does to God, Church, to the one you would be involved with to you, your spouse and family, and to you.
R.T. Kendall (out of the comfort zone)

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