Student Ministries Blog

Click here to listen to Week 3 of the message series, “BLOOD,” from Fuse at the Greenville Campus.

Click here to listen to Week 2 of the message series “Blood” from Fuse in Greenville.

You can’t teach passion

All of us began volunteering with student ministry, because we were determined to make a change in the next generation. We weren’t content with sitting back and watching the next group of students follow blindly into lives of emptiness and brokenness. We wanted them to do it better than we did it—to keep them from having the same hurts and scars that we had. Hopefully, most of us started our journey as small group leaders fueled by a passion to make a difference in students lives. But, if we’re not careful, we can lose that passion and fall into routine and apathy.

Student ministry is tough. There are no guarantees that we will ever see one ounce of change in a student’s life. Sometimes, we pour our entire lives into a student just to see them return to the same sin pattern that we know will lead them to destruction. But we can’t give up! We can’t lose the passion we had when God called us to minister to students. However, it’s our natural bent to burn out. To give up. To lose heart.

The good part is that our God never gives up. His fire never burns out. His passion for His children never dies. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow! We HAVE to find a way to obtain God’s passion or it’s game over for us. We can never fully invest what we need to invest using our own passion. We have to capture God’s passion for His children before we can ever think of making an impact. So what are you doing to catch God’s passion? Are you seeking God’s heart? Are you spending enough time with Him? Is your time with Him worth anything or is it just checking off a list? Without a connection to God’s passion we will fail. Are you connected?

God’s Word tells us that ‘without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness of sins.’  Therefore as we read God’s Word we know that where there is BLOOD there is PURPOSE.  ‘First Blood’ is just that, a look @ the 1st trace of Blood in the Bible.  Why was it there? Who’s blood was it?  What was it’s purpose? 

Click here to listen to week 1 of the message series BLOOD at Fuse in Greenville.

Follow the leader

In 1 Corinthians 11:1, Paul says, “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ .” If small groups had a theme verse, it would be this one. It sums up everything that small groups are about. It also forces us to ask ourselves the question, “Am I worth following?” We want all of you to feel empowered to lead students in our ministry, but before you set out and get involved in their lives, you have to ask yourself this question.

First of all, the answer to the question is “no.” We aren’t worth following. We are some of the most broken and messed up people that exist. However, with the Holy Spirit living inside of us and the Bible to guide us, we can be confident—like Paul—to ask students to follow our example.

The real question, then comes to be, “Am I following Christ’s example?” Paul was only able to make this bold statement, because he knew that he was following Jesus with his whole heart. Can you say the same? Are you seeking to follow Christ’s example daily? How are you doing that? Who do you have in your life to hold you accountable for the way you live?

Leading students is not something you should take lightly. Leading them by following anything other than Christ’s example is leading them away from him. You have a high and heavy calling on you. Don’t take it lightly. Do everything you can to follow Christ’s example. And then invite students to come along.

The building will be open at 7:00 PM every week.

Fuse will start at…
October 2nd - 10:00 PM
October 9th - 10:00 PM
October 16th - 10:00 PM
October 23rd - 10:00 PM
October 30th - No Fuse (Instead, there will be a live CD recording at NewSpring on the Anderson Campus in the main auditorium.)

Now that you know the schedule, do everything you can to get your friends and others to Fuse on these nights. Football games are a huge opportunity to invite people, so load up your car with people at halftime or the end of the 3rd quarter and drive them them to Fuse!

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