Youth Leader: Clementin Oancea
Our Vision
“We want our youth to come to Christ, grow in Christ, and serve through Christ”
Christ is all Col 3:11
Come, Grow and Serve -as long as the youth are focused on these three levels of intimacy with Christ…..we shall experience victory.
1. COME TO CHRIST
Mat 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
John 6: 35 And Jesus said unto them, `I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger”
John 7:37 “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink”
John 6 : 44″No man can come to Me except the Father which has sent Me draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day”
Based on the above verses we believe first and foremost that it is God’s grace that enables us to come to Christ ( John 6:44).
Secondly we see our total failure in the words weary, burdened, hungry, thirsty. Total depravity is all we have.
Yet thirdly we see that if we respond to Christ invitation and come we are promised salvation from our desperate state.
2.GROW IN CHRIST
Ephesians 4:14,15 – “Be no longer children, but grow up in Christ….”
2 Peter 3:18 – “…… but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
2 Thessalonians 1:3 – We thank God…..because your faith grows exceedingly”
Philippians 1:9 – “Paul prayed for their love to abound more and more”.
1 Peter 2:2 – “As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby”.
People understand the concept of growth in the physical development of humans, and we know why it is important.
Babies are immature physically and mentally, but we expect them to develop. If they don’t, there is a problem.
Spiritual growth is a similar concept but is far more important.
Growth is development or improvement toward a goal called “maturity” (or, in the Bible, “perfection”). When one is “born again” as a child of God, he is spiritually immature. As time passes, he should develop the qualities or abilities which the Bible says characterize the mature. A congregation matures as individual members mature.
Many problems result when members fail to grow: some go back to the world, others cause strife because of ignorance or become stumblingblocks because of irregular attendance, worldliness, or indifference.
3.SERVE THROUGH CHRIST –
Many people have the misconception that being “called” by God is something only missionaries, pastors, evangelists, and other church leaders experience. But the Bible says everyone is called to serve God by serving others.
Eph 2:10
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. “
Philipians 2:1-5 “So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, … “
Mark 10:44 “And whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Gal 6:9 “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap
