Breakfast Club

With all of the crazy weather that Dallas has been having for the past two weeks, we finally got to have our first WyldLife club of the semester.  The theme was Breakfast Club, so the kids came dressed in pajama pants and house shoes.  Everything we did at club had to do with breakfast!  I even had a few kids ask me if we were going to watch The Breakfast Club...  That made me laugh.

Anyway, we had breakfast/morning themed music, games, and skits.  Kids competed in a blindfolded pillow fighting tournament, a challenge to see who could drink a blended up McDonald's Big Breakfast Combo the fastest (7th grade girls won...), and a few other crazy games.  We also pulled out the classic skit where you have a single glass of water, a tooth brush, and tooth paste, and have 5 leaders walk up and brush their teeth with the toothbrush and tooth paste provided, one after the other, with the last person drinking the leftover toothpaste/water in the cup.  The kids liked it.  I was really disappointed I didn't get to take part in that...

The talk that I shared with all of my junior high friends was about how you have to have faith to follow Jesus, but that having faith in Him means that you follow Him on a daily basis.  I read from Matthew the story of the Roman centurion who showed his great faith in Jesus by believing that Jesus could heal his ailing servant by merely uttering the words that he would be healed.  Then, I showed them the clip from Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade where Indiana proves his faith by stepping out into the canyon that separates him from the Holy Grail.

I explained to the kids that in order to be saved it is necessary to believe in Jesus, but that having a relationship with Jesus isn't solely about going to heaven.  In order to experience life to the full in a relationship with Jesus, they will have to choose to follow Jesus on a daily basis.  Learning how to follow Jesus with decisions in life is something that everybody needs help with, but choosing to start following Jesus daily only requires faith.  If you have faith in Jesus and trust that His way will lead you to life, then He will guide you in the right direction along the way.

Recently, I've felt compelled to share bold truth with our kids.  In a ministry aimed toward non-believers, we tend to water things down a bit so we don't seem too intimidating and scare kids away. However, with this club's message I decided to forgo the water and give it to them straight.  Judging from the response I got after club, the talk seemed to be received well.

Thanks for reading!

Please pray that all of these kids will choose to follow Jesus daily.

Until next club,

 Brody