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Posted 7 hours ago
- Why, why, why do you persist!?
- Because I choose to.
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Posted 8 hours ago
Heck yes!!! <- for the Tumblr meetup :) and you can bring your fire staffy thing and ill bring my rainbow tailed poi and people will think we're so indie and cool :p yup im such a clever cookie figuring out that name lol, not really. Your youth group sounds pretty wicked, ours kinda dieded. We had two youth pastor come then leave and for ages we had no senior pastor and we were all like okayyy, what do we do? Im on a break from youth group atm tho.

so, im feeling a bit stalkerish asking you all this stuff, like every day but hmm. todays question issssssssssss......what are your views on friendships with non christians?
br0kenbutterfly asked

Done, I’m keen for it. :D I’m not sure if I’ll be allowed to bring them (fire in such a dry place can’t be good) but I can bring some practice gear (maybe). :D

Haha, well, you should come visit us someday. ^_^ AND if you’ve got a passion for youth, then you should start it up again. ;)

Well, when you look at Jesus, he was friends with heaps of non Christians, right? My view is the same as His. I see no point in hiding myself away behind a wall where I only associate with Christians, because otherwise I’d never grow.

Jesus hung out with prostitutes, tax collectors and the worst of their society - I may not be quite to the point where I hang out with prostitutes, etc, but I put myself out there into the world where I could.

So my view is: count your non Christian friends as close, if not closer, than your Christian friends, because that’s what Jesus did.

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Posted 11 hours ago
PARACHUTE FTW!!!!! i did three years too :) 06/07/08 and fingerscrossed 11. If decent bands play....like Switchfoot :) wow, fancy youth group even has a name! ours used to be called alien youth, then yc2n (youth called to nations) now its obcy (real creative, oamaru baptist church youth lol) nuhhhhhhhhh *lightbulb goes on* emit, like lights. thats cool! hope you have fun :)
br0kenbutterfly asked

YES! We should totally do a Tumblr meetup at Parachute, all the other NZ Tumblr’s there. :D

Yes, we do. :) Emit - Youth, Passion, Life. That’s us, that’s our motto. It’s good stuff… And yes, you nailed the Emit part - light! Emitting God’s love and light around us! :D

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Posted 12 hours ago
We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team.
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Posted 12 hours ago

Sometimes God blows me away.

Ok, so I know I’m like, the Christian kid at school and stuff, and this means that I’m supposed to know everything about God and all the many millions of things that He does… But I don’t, and I’d just like to do a quick rundown on one thing. :)

Last night, I was overseeing/running the service with a good friend of mine. It went really well, aside from having one seriously drunk person there, who was asked to leave (on a side note, he was really good about it when we explained why he couldn’t be there - it was good).

So this was at the end of the message. For those that don’t know how we roll at our church, we rock it out with some worship at the start, dive straight into the message and then, if the message suits it, open up the alter for prayer and ministry.

I was standing at the back when this happened. My friend was closing off the service, saying that there’s coke and stuff in the foyer, you’re welcome to stay if you want prayer, etc.. The usual.

As people started to leave, I high-fived a girl that was going past. She stopped, and we had a quick God chat… Five minutes, not longer than that.

I basically asked her if she’d be spending enough time with God/praying, and she said she thought she’d been praying enough, but maybe not spending enough time with God… So that in itself blew me away, cause (and I know this sounds terrible) I didn’t really think she was that serious about God. (Man, that does sound terrible).

I then asked her if God had been talking to her lately, and if she’d been listening… And she said yes. Now I’m going through a stage of like, serious mind meltdown, cause this is awesome. :) It took me years to nail down that part of prayer, and she’s got it in less than six months or so? Epic.

This probably doesn’t seem so monumental to some people, and I know why… But to me, it’s awesome. :)

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Posted 1 day ago

Lets go… To emit. :D

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Posted 1 day ago
uhh yes ive heard of levin, its by welly kinda sorta. and according to wikipedia, Levin is a service centre for the surrounding rural area, and a centre of light manufacturing. hahahaha seriously? is that cos of all the stuff you blow up :p aanywho, i live in Oamaru. you know, whitestone, blue penguins, old people, teen car crashes/murders occasionally, made the news for like a week cos of flooding this year :D
hmm, todays question...have you ever been to parachute and/or eastercamp?
br0kenbutterfly asked

Yeah, and a sorta awesome youth group callet Emit! :D

And yesh, I have heard of Oamaru. :)

And YES! Parachute FTWIN! :D

Three years I think? :D