Time Spent this Week: 8 hrs
Basketball Ministry: 3 hrs
Ipods: 2hrs
Youth Group: 3 hrs
My Class this Week
This past week was Spring Break, and I was not able to attend the weekly Sunday school class on Sunday. I did make it to the small group discipleship meeting on Monday evening. This is a guys only group devoted to deepening their faith by looking closely at a passage of scripture each week. Although we meet in the parsonage basement, this small group is not run or attended by any fulltime Brookhaven ministers in hopes of giving the youth a fresh environment to grow closer to God.
This week in Ipods, Tim continued guiding the group through the book of Malachi. Looking at chapter two, we discussed the Lord's Admonition to the Priests. God was warning the people to change their lifestyles and remember the purpose for which He appointed them. Taking groups of verses, a few group members were assigned to discover specific truths within their designated passage. My group was told to discover the way priests were supposed to be living. Our answer included righteous lifestyles, correct instruction, and strict obedience of the Law.
Tim does quite a good job encouraging the teens to share their thoughts, affirming their responses even if they aren't on track. Monday nights are great times to get together and focus on God's truths during the first day of the work-week.
Questions:
1. How high should we place the Law on the priority list of our lifestyles in our modern age?
2. Are we exempt from many of the laws of the Old Testament in light of Jesus' death and resurrection on Calvary?
3. If some of the commands of the Old Testament do not apply to Christians today, which ones do and how do we know?
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Re: Question about exemption... I don't think that Jesus exempted us from much of the Old Testament law, because what he did set up for us to do is even harder than the Old Testament law. If we followed it perfectly it still wouldn't be good enough to save us. However, if we live like Christ lived, as we should try to, then our lives will naturally follow the Old Testament laws because Jesus taught us to follow the heart of the law, not the specific rules.
ReplyDeleteRe: Question about Old Testament commands... I don't think that the culturally specific laws, or the commands given for that specific day should be followed exactly, but if there is an underlying meaning behind the laws then we should. If God said to keep the donkey's at bay at night, then we can't really do that today, but if the command was made so that our donkey's don't harm our neighbors fields by eating them, then we should take the underlying meaning to show respect for our neighbors, even if it's just a little thing. We have a new relationship with God thanks to the new covenant, and the Holy spirit to lead us, so I don't think that the OT law should trump the Spirit of God speaking in our lives.