Week 2 @ Camp Lex

I've officially been at camp one day longer than I've been in my office! This week: High School Camp. I took 12 kids (Ashley, Alicia, Erik, Camille, Andrea, Alyssa, Julian, Daisha, Jena, Matt, Harlee and Presley) from our church and was a dorm leader for 5 High School Boys (Matt, Josh, Erik, Travis, and Julian) in Dickensen #9! The camp theme: Deepening! Our speaker: Jeff Little (www.jefflittle.org)

More spiritual "nuggets" if you will :)

• Going deep is not gradual. It's immediate, acute, straight down and dangerous. So many people are satisfied with the shallowness in their lives. We need to go deeper.


• "Follow the yellow-brick road!" You can choose what ever road you want, but you go where it goes. You don't chose the destination. Is the road you're on gonna take you to where you want to end up? Are you on the right road?


• You need to know what in the world you believe and why in the world you believe it. You must conduct worldview training in your youth group.


• Condemnation differs from conviction. Conviction is specific. Are you listening to the wrong voice?


• Your life is like a mortgage: So expensive that you cannot afford it. So expensive that God Himself had to die to pay the price for it.


• You can be whatever GOD wants you to be. It doesn't matter what YOU want to be.


• If you take care of God's business, He will get into your business and you will prosper.


• Destiny is not just a plan, job, etc. Your destiny has a face. It's the people you touch around you. Jesus did not die for a plan, he died for a person.


• 4 Types of People at the Beach, where the beach is the world and the water is the Kingdom of God: 1) Beach Bums (unbelievers; never get into the water). 2) Toe Dippers (like carnal/casual Christians - touch the water, but never really get wet). 3) Waders (have real relationship with God, but have reached a plateau). 4) Maniacs (willing to go deep with God).


• 6 Aspects of Deep Water: 1. It's the place of the presence of God 2. It's the place of hearing God's voice 3. It's the place of faith and trust 4. It's the place of miracles 5. It's the place of storms (the deepest relationships involve and require the toughest tests) 6. It's the place of rescue.

Two weeks without my wife and kids is killing me. Can't wait for them to get home this weekend! Another awesome week of camp! Next week: Back in the office, then Kids Camp the following week! Can't wait!