The key

I spoke to a room full of rowdy teenagers this morning as part of Gen-Ignite’s theJourney internship program.  We talked about the importance of a lifestyle of worship and some tips to engaging in a life-giving corporate musical worship experience.  I’ll rehash that, at some point, but as I prepared, I couldn’t get away from an issue that was staring me right in the face.

As Christians, we love hearing teaching from great communicators and learning how to strengthen our walk with Jesus, BUT there are two keys for Christians to be able to get anything from a teaching (and I told the kids this this morning, so get ready to write):

1. Read the Bible.  God created you to bring glory to Himself.  The chief end of man is to glorify God.  THEN He dictated a book full of things about Himself, how He liked to be worshiped, how His Son behaved, etc, etc.  In order to be able to apply ANY Christian concept, we need to know a thing or two about the founder of this whole thing…..

2. Pray.  When Jesus died on the cross, the veil that covered access to the Holy of Holies (in the temple) was torn and we no longer needed a mediator.  Prayer is the direct link to the creator of the Universe.

Apply daily, repeat as needed, watch things go to a whole new level.