Youth Blog

Ok, I was away with YFC for a week at a conference and I had arranged for a friend of mine to come and join me. However, he said he couldn’t and the way it was put across, his reason, was that he wouldn’t go unless someone else would go with him. So I ignored him, and had a minor falling out. Do you think I was childish? I do! He has been a friend of mine for as long as I have been a Christian. We all do stupid things; I like to call this the sheep complex (this is where evil Japanese sheep came from). Basically it’s a story of a field of sheep on top of a cliff. One day a sheep decides to run off it because it had nothing better to do, what happened next? The rest of the sheep followed and jumped off the cliff! Why am I telling you this? Because sheep are stupid, and so was I! http://www.zealoty.com/html%20files/weird%20news.html follow the link and it will tell you the full story. I see people around me ending friendships because of the most stupid and petty reasons going! In the end I spoke to my friend and ended the “sheepieness!” I believe that we are all called to fix broken relationships because Jesus was the ultimate friend-maker. I think that all relationships should have God at the centre of it. Even friendly relationships with someone that doesn’t believe in God can be Godly because of the way YOU act. Your attitude can affect others and encourage even non-believers to act in a Godly way. So I challenge you to fix your broken relationships, keep them strong, and remember you only get out what you put in so don’t be afraid to put in the extra hours work! And most importantly don’t be a sheep!!! J

Hey everyone

I do apologise that it has been a little while since I last wrote to you all… life can get just so busy sometimes but that’s another story. The last couple of weeks we have been thinking about lifestyles in particular regarding drugs and alcohol as well as relationship with our parents.

These situations and issues don’t tend get any easier, if anything I think it gets harder in terms of temptation and not just knowing what the right thing to do is but actually doing the right is often a lot more difficult. Because we can under so much pressure to do what everyone else is doing, this can both be positive and negative at the same time.

For instance your mum and dad might want to be doing certain options at School etc but you want to do something else, what do you do? Or even when people at school might offer us cigarettes, alcohol or even drugs! What do you do? Because doing the right thing when we are faced with these “peer-pressure” situations is really hard.

Jesus in Matthew 5:10-12 talks about going through these hard times and in some ways it is what we should expect as Christians because this has happened to those who lived years ago. But the challenge is to be salt and light. (Matt 5:13-16) Salt because salt gives taste and flavour to something and so we should be salt to show ourselves to be different to the world. Also a being light and letting the light shine so that people will be able to see God in us.

Anyways, I would love to hear what you think about this because it is really challenging! But keep going and continue to be salt and light!

God bless

James