TRUCKKKK!!!

I have been going to youth group since I started the 6th grade. I am now almost done with 9th grade. So, I've attended youth for three years. Sure, that's a long time, but it seems I still have awhile to go. But no matter how many different youth groups I go to, it's getting old. I hear the same messages over and over again. It was exciting hearing them for the first time, but I want something new. Regardless, sometimes something I hear just hits me and really makes an impact. Last night, I visited ELCA youth and I wanted to let you know what I heard.

We're all going to die. It's just a fact. So why are we here? We have to win people for God. People are dying, every day, and going to hell because they don't know. Who am I, to have all of this knowledge, and keep it to myself.

It's hard to bring up God and his infinite, powerful love into a conversation with your friends. I understand that. You have to know where the line is of being an annoying, judgmental Christian and the different one. The one that actually wins people to God because they live out what they say and don't try to shove Christianity onto anyone.

Is that it? Is what I wrote what hit me last night? No, I've known that stuff. I hope you have, too. And if you haven't, I hope you understand it and are affected by it. But what I heard is something that I think you need to hear too.

So, you're saved. You're going to heaven. What about your friends? What about the ones you love? THEY ARE GOING TO HELL IF YOU DON'T DO SOMETHING. This is what they said: "If you saw an 18-wheeler coming straight toward someone on the street, would you say something?" That's just like hell. It's coming. What kind of person wouldn't warn someone about that? So next time you're talking to someone you know is not saved and you want to talk about God and how he saved you, but can't think "TRUCKKKK!!!". Think about the truck that is coming straight towards them, and how you would want someone to tell you if a truck was about to flatten you.

That's all for now.
<3
Jordan