Fill us up, Lord, and send us out

The pictures aren't working for me at the moment, so I'll save the introduction of my friends for later.

This year at Nationals, I decided to take a break from the music and take a Revolution elective. It's kind of like Bible study on the more radical stuff. I learned sooooooooooooo much.

The whole kind of theme of the elective was sanctification. My little Revolution handbook thing says:

Before conversion, you are actually under the power and dominion of sin. You may see it to be evil, hate it, and struggle against it; but you are still under its power and forced to obey it. For instance, see how some people make resolutions and break them directly. They cannont help but sin . . . the root of the principle of sin is still in the soul.

"Sin is no longer your master, for you are no longer subject to the law, which enslaved you in sin. Instead, you are free by God's grace." (Romans 6:14 NLT)

The elective also cleared up a huge huge issue for me. We were given this reference:

"If you do anything you believe is not right, you are sinning." (Romans 14:23b NLT)

Ohhhh how that helps. Steve(leader) explained it to simply mean that if you have any kind of suspicion that something you do is not right, instead of trying to convince yourself that it's ok, you shouldn't do it. Not everyone feels the same way about certain things, but if you doubt anything and still do it, you are sinning.

"You may have the faith to believe that there is nothing wrong with what you are doing, but keep it between yourself and God. Blessed are those who do not condemn themselves by doing something they know is all right." (Romans 14:22 NLT)

I also officially decided what my favourtie Bible verse is. I've heard this before, but I suddenly realized how wonderful it is at camp:

"As for me, God forbid that I should boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world died long ago, and the world's interest in me is also long dead." (Galatians 6:14 NLT)

We did a lot of imagining and invisioning stuff at camp and, though it got kind of overwhelming at times, there's something that I think everyone should do every now and then. In a quiet place, lie down, close your eyes, and picture yourself kneeling under the cross of Jesus. Kneel as close as you can. I always picture myself kneeling slightly under Jesus' right arm for some reason.

Now look up.

How can you not hang your head in shame and want to turn to those behind you and yell in frustration, "Look what He did for you!"

We must go

live to feed the hungry

stand beside the broken

We must go

stepping forward

keep us from just singing

move us into action

We must go