Paintball & God?
Sunday is the day... We were going to link God & Paintball. On the agenda for Youth Group today was to play some games & talk about paintball and missing the mark.
Father Al had spoken in one of his sermons about the literal definition of sin is "missing the mark". I can just see the tons of light bulbs going off in everyone's head.
We talked about how every paintball gun comes with 200 paintballs and the average person in our Youth Group hit their mark only 4 times. That means that we as a group missed our mark around 194 times on Saturday night. But if we as a group went every Saturday for one year the number of times we missed our mark would drop significantly.
The kids spoke of the places in our lives where we miss the mark... School (not doing homework on time), home (not listening to their parents) and youth group (not participating in all the activities). We then talked about those things we can do to help us "practice" to not miss the mark: prayer, church, youth group, asking for forgiveness, and tithing.
With pledge time coming up we talked about tithing as youth. We did the math: if 14 youth group members gave $1 a week for a year, we as a group would raise $672! That's paintball 3 times! That's Garner at least once and maybe LaserQuest!
Talking about these things: prayer, tithing, church & youth group, we know that they can help us to keep on the mark, but it is a commitment to God and ourselves that help us stay on track and not miss the mark when temptation hits us.
So there you have it.... Paintball & God!
Father Al had spoken in one of his sermons about the literal definition of sin is "missing the mark". I can just see the tons of light bulbs going off in everyone's head.
We talked about how every paintball gun comes with 200 paintballs and the average person in our Youth Group hit their mark only 4 times. That means that we as a group missed our mark around 194 times on Saturday night. But if we as a group went every Saturday for one year the number of times we missed our mark would drop significantly.
The kids spoke of the places in our lives where we miss the mark... School (not doing homework on time), home (not listening to their parents) and youth group (not participating in all the activities). We then talked about those things we can do to help us "practice" to not miss the mark: prayer, church, youth group, asking for forgiveness, and tithing.
With pledge time coming up we talked about tithing as youth. We did the math: if 14 youth group members gave $1 a week for a year, we as a group would raise $672! That's paintball 3 times! That's Garner at least once and maybe LaserQuest!
Talking about these things: prayer, tithing, church & youth group, we know that they can help us to keep on the mark, but it is a commitment to God and ourselves that help us stay on track and not miss the mark when temptation hits us.
So there you have it.... Paintball & God!
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