This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Pray for the spiritual growth of those helping with your church’s VBS.
This Sunday: Pray for the spiritual growth of those helping with your church’s VBS
Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:34, CSB
God is in control and cares for us, and He will help us through each day as we seek Him and trust Him.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17, CSB
Only God can save us from our sins, and, when we come to Him in faith, His Holy Spirit indwells us and empowers us in that freedom from and over sin.
Jesus said, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.”
John 20:29, CSB
Only God can save us from our sins, and salvation comes in believing the eyewitness accounts of Jesus’ death and resurrection as revealed in the gospels.
“Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you.”
Matthew 7:7, CSB
Only God can save us from our sins, and He invites us to ask for salvation and all that gives Him glory and changes the world for our collective benefit as the gospel is shared.
God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him.
1 John 4:9, CSB
Only God can save us from our sins, and He showed His love for us by sending His Son to take our sins through His death on the cross and giving us life.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
Matthew 5:10, CSB
Only God can make us righteous, and this makes the people of this world angry and want to bring us down. God has promised to deliver us through persecution and into His eternal Kingdom.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Matthew 5:9, CSB
Only God can give us true, lasting peace, and through Christ we find peace and are empowered to bring peace to others to His glory.
In 2023, our church had a small sort of VBS for the first time (we made ukuleles and practiced some songs to play for the church.) This year, we do not have a VBS, though some of our teens helped lead some at other churches as evangelistic outreaches. So many other churches offer VBS that many families cycle through to essentially have summer daycare throughout June and July.
A few parents have wondered about a lack of VBS, but mostly they are okay with going to all the others. I am beginning to have my youth group do more with younger groups. (Most of the youth volunteer in some way in the church, including teaching Sunday School.) Perhaps we are approaching a time when the youth hold the VBS!
In any event, we need to pray for children to heat the gospel and how to shepherd the whole congregation, whether or not there is VBS.
Daniel
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Shepherding people who might be upset that your church has no VBS this year.
This Sunday at Church: Shepherding people who might be upset that your church has no VBS this year
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Matthew 5:8, CSB
Only God makes us pure, good, and holy through Christ, the one who helps us and ushers us into His presence.
a simple man of God 