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I am on a journey to see how God will use me in this messy thing called the "Church." While on that journey I have just recently moved to a new role as a Sr. Pastor. Not real sure what that means really, but God is moving and I will follow the wave as it goes.

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Mentoring

February 23rd, 2009 • Related • Filed Under

What a great morning yesterday.  I had the chance to turn the pulpit over to a student who is in our ministry.  Several months ago he came to me and was really struggling with a few issues and I sent him down a path of trying to discover a reconnect with God.  He actually took the advice and turned what he learned into a sermon that he preached yesterday morning.  He did an incredible job.

I am finding it to be more and more fun to mentor students and see them grow up and find their identity in Christ and joy in church.  Here is the basic outline of what he preached.

Ecclesiastes 5:2

God – whatever comes to mind when you think about God is what is most important to you

I.  God is Holy

II. God is eternal

III. God is all knowing

IV.  God is all powerful

V.  God is fair and just

Some fairly heavy stuff that he covered and shared with our students.  As part of the path I sent him on he did read Francis Chan’s book Crazy Love.  There were two  funny things that he said:

“I am hot!”

“What would you do if God turned your wife into a pillar of salt?”

On Wednesday the podcast will be up and you can listen to the whole thing by going to our student ministry web-site at www.hsmweb.com

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  • http://kylelreed.wordpress.com Kyle L Reed

    Joe did a great job and will be a great student at Lincoln.
    He had a lot of weight in his sermon and you could tell he really experienced/joy from the journey over the last few months. Good to see students preaching, I like it when they can communicate truths in their life with their peers.

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