What an exciting opportunity we have as leaders to minister God’s grace and reconciliation to these students! Recently some students have told me they believe God is mad or disappointed with them when they screw up or don’t live up to certain expectations. We can be an example of God’s grace by accepting each student where they are and encouraging them to pursue the One who loves them most. God is NOT disappointed with you or them, He simply desires for all of us to share in the GRACE, POWER, AND LIFE through Jesus Christ. As God leads, let your students know that by receiving the forgiveness and life found only in Christ, they can establish a connection with God and experience His peace, love, and rest. And if they already have a relationship with Christ, they can step off the performance treadmill, Jesus did all the performing on their behalf. Our job as leaders is NOT to add to their list of things to do, our job is to encourage them to discover who they are in Christ and all that He has already done in them and what He is ready to do through them. Now that’s an exciting journey!
Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. -2 Corinthians 5:18–19
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