I love preaching forgiveness; I love preaching of the
beauty of Christ and the gospel, I love preaching God's standards for a
variety of things; I hate preaching to teens about sex...but that's what
I'm about to do...
"hate"
is not really the word, dislike because of the age and relative
innocence of some of the campers; anger because in any crowd I am sadly
confident there will be victims of abuse who think they need
forgiveness; aware that in any crowd (of any age) there will be those
who profess Christ and at the very same time think it is okay to engage
in pre/extra/homosexual sex...
My
hope is built in nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness; and a
sanctified awareness that He has called me to this; I've studied and
prepared as best I can, and begged His Spirit to control my mouth and
grant me grace to speak as He gives the campers...and staff...the grace
to hear.
I'll be speaking in less than an hour; prayers longed for and appreciated
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