What? Talking about the Bible at Bible Camp?

Last night I was directed by Spirit of God to use my chapel time to basically teach a class on "The Authority of Scripture."

My first point was "It is logically inconsistent to 'believe in Jesus' and deny the authority of the (entire) Word of God."

Basic?

Yeah.

And all too often forgotten/overlooked/ignored.

Perhaps we king-james-donkey-sume that all campers understand that the Bible is the inspired Word.

You know what happens when you assume...

It's like camp games...how much energy is spent on coming up with some "new" game that we think will capture the campers? I am not against creativity (I'm jealous of those creative types); but usually the campers delight in the "old" stuff...because to them it is not old; it's old to us because, well, we're old(er).

Same same topics to be discussed. We think we need "new" stuff; they need to be reminded (and in many cases told for the first time) the "basic" stuff.

"But you preached that message last year, Jack!"

Could well be...but if I pray seeking God's direction on what to preach, and He leads me that way, that is the way I roll. Besides, even if all the campers have been with me before (about 80percent of this weeks campers are retreads); they don't remember..and even if they do, they need the reminder. (Peter says that a couple times in his epistles, "I'm gonna tell you this although you know it...") 

Why? We leak; and there is that thing about the secret of repeated impression.

Yes, I preach new messages as part of my assignments, but it is not lazy or "force of habit" to repreach many messages (tweaked along the way).

And, God knows, most teens...like most adults...need to work on the foundation of their faith even as they strive to "Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."( 2 Peter 3.18)

Remember this song? It remains true...oh, by the way, this song came out in 1992 (what ever happened to 4Him?)
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