Road Trip-- Where God's Story and Our's Meets!

Last week during our youth worship service, we started a new series called "Road Trip."  We are exploring the the story of the bible and seeing how it relates to each of us and our spiritual journey.  Just like in any trip, you have beginning, you must start somewhere.  So last week we looked at Genesis 1-3 and discussed creation and how God created us, but more important then getting bogged down in the details of the account we discussed how God created us to be in relationship with others and with himself.  I tried to really drive home that God wants a relationship with us more than anything, and that relationship is our beginning.

This week's message is going to be more of a challenge, at least for me personally.  We are calling it ROAD BLOCK.  Like so many trips, I have been on there seems to be last one thing that goes wrong.  Either the car breaks down or you have an unexpected accident or road that's out, so we have to take a detour.  This week we are discussing sin.  Showing that God created us to be in relationship with him, but we hit a road block, we sin.  I want to show the students what sin is and what it is not, and discuss with them that we all have road blocks in life.

Our third week, we will cover the rest of the Old Testament...or at least try!  We are calling it DETOUR.  Just like the Israelites who were always on a detour, trying to get back on the path that God had designed them for.  The whole OT is a story of God providing for his people, yet their stubbornness to turn to him.  It is the story of mankind trying to get back to that relationship that God had created us to have with him.  And just like the Israelites who seemed to be in the desert, wandering and failing at their attempts to get close to God, so we too have struggles and failures in our life that seem to get us from God.  We try and we try, and we feel all alone sometimes, and we are on that detour so unexpected.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN is the title of our fourth week.  We will have finally discuss the good news of Jesus!  Just like after you drive a detour and finally get back on the road again, so we in our spiritual lives experience this.  We may take our time to find him, but once we do we are back on the path that God created us to be on.  Through Jesus we are able to have a relationship with God again.

Our last week of the school year of before summer programming, is called ARRIVING.  We will take a look at Paul's teaching of what it means to be Christ follower and what it means to live a life in view of heaven.  We never quite arrive while here on the earth, but we are always arriving, always moving closer to that goal of being called heavenward.

Road Trip, a journey where God's story and our story meet!