I have been doing a little planning lately for what I would like to see in a children/youth outreach to my communitry. I am trying to be as deliberate as possible with as much as possible, take for example the name (well maybe the name, I like it) S.W.A.T Students With A Testemony.

Now you might be thinking "so what" every program has a weird name with acronyms but I want to do something than give the program a cool name. I want to put S.W.A.T onto T-Shirts, gym bags, water bottles, stickers, decals, everything. Then I want to give this items away to the kids that attend the program as prizes and also give the kids a chance to buy them if they want.

Now because this is an outreach program the whole thing behind it is equiping these kids to go out into there schools, community sports leagues, etc - with the purpose of seeing there peers won to Christ. I want to teach these kids a very simple way of talking to there friends about Jesus called WDJD (this is taught by Way of the master - www.wayofthemaster.com )

In order for these kids to be able to start God conversations with there friends they need a way to turn everyday ordinary conversations into evangelistic oportunities. Once that is done then WDJD takes over.

This is what I see this looking like (sort of):

Billy (S.W.A.T member)
Frank (Unsaved friend from school)

Frank: Hey Billy that's a cool new shirt, where did you get it?

Billy: I got it from church last night

Frank: What does it say of the back?

Billy: SWAT

Frank: what does that stand for?

Billy: Students with a testemony

Frank: What's a testemony?

Billy: Its my story about why I believe in Jesus


O.K. so at this point WDJD would take over and that would be where Billy asks Frank a series of questions that point out Frank's need for a saviour:

Would you consider yourself to be a good person? Frank would probably answer yes

Do you think you have kept the 10 commandments? This points out to Frank that he has lied, stolen, etc

Judgement - If God where to judge you by the 10 commandments would you be inocent or guilty? This points out the consequence for the breaking of the 10 commandments

Destiny - would you go to heaven or hell? At this point Frank is hopefully feeling convicted of his sin and realizes that he needs Christ in his life (not to make his life better, but to save himself from hell)

Yeah I know it is much more complicated than that but this is my blog - just a starting point. If you want a better look at what WDJD looks like go to www.wayofthemaster.com what these guys do with strangers I would like to apply to children with their friends.

I think that if we can teach kids how to have these none offensive yet convicting conversations with there friends then we can really have an effective ministry to the lost instead of just entertaining church kids.

Another thought would be to have large group WDJD, kids bring there unsaved friends to a S.W.A.T event and the leaders can do a large group presentation to present the message. This can be done maybe through drama or even under the disguise of training: We train kids how to reach there friends at school and while the other kids are watching the training they are being hit with the message.

Just a thought...

Refreshing

Times Of Refreshing

There is nothing quite like it when you go through those moments that God is so attainable. I know that it is all a matter of the heart and my willingness to submit myself to God. It has been a while since I was at where I am right now. I love God and right now in my life it shows. Sleep doesn’t matter, I would rather spend it my time with God. Sure there are mornings where my body wins and I sleep in but I make up for it during the day. Thankfully right now I am blessed with a God that gives me 10 hours a day to sit by myself in my car worshiping God and seeking Him.
I love spending time with God, two hours goes by so fast that it never seems like enough. Setting aside time to spend with God is extremely rewarding, first of all there is the obvious fact that if you aren’t spending time with God then you probably aren’t a Christian. I never met anyone who was friends with someone they never spent anytime with. The same is true with God, oh sure you might know God like I know the girl who sells me coffee in the morning, but that’s no relationship. Relationship are built when people spend time together, there is no difference when it comes to relationships between God and man. In order to know God, and I mean really know God you must spend time with Him – that’s Christianity. Not this go to church once a week, pray before I eat and go to sleep garbage that we so think is actually doing something. That’s a lie straight from the enemy. If we were friends and you only talked to me for 10 seconds before you ate 3 times a day, I would be insulted. No wonder so many people fall away from God saying that they don’t get anything out of it, of course they don’t get anything out of it there putting nothing into it.

Nothing in = Nothing out
Garbage in = Garbage out
Quality in = Quality out

Take your pick, personally I prefer to know my God, my creator, my saviour to the fullest. After all didn’t Jesus die on the cross for our sins? Didn’t He command us to take up our cross and follow Him? Didn’t He command us to go unto all the world baptizing in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit? How dare we do anything less.

But people say that they can’t take the time to spend with God, they don’t have any time in the day. Well find time! Seriously… find the time! Wake up twenty minutes earlier, or go to bed twenty minutes later, watch less T.V. you probably watch too much anyway. Give up something whether it is sleep, T.V., or what ever else floats your boat. Give up something and God will reward you for it. Lose some sleep, you wont be tired (no more tired than you were already), skip a meal you wont die, stop watching a certain T.V. show pretty soon you’ll realize there is nothing good on and you’ll stop watching T.V. all together. Do one of these things, God will reward you. Spending time with God do you know what the reward is? Real Christianity. Real Relationship. Real Salvation!