Day 2
God is pouring love into their lives, students at Smithville Christian High School were told in chapel this morning.
“And here’s what God wants you to do: to pour the love that God has given you into the people around you,” said Craig Danielson, senior pastor at Calvary Church in St. Catharines.
He said there may be suffering in our lives, but God uses our hurts to produce endurance, and endurance to produce character.
“Hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us,” said Danielson, quoting Romans 5:5.
Danielson said the difference between “spilling” and “pouring” is that spilling is an accident, while pouring is purposeful.
He said the theme of this year’s Spiritual Emphasis Week, Living Inside Out Loud, is calling us to live “with passion, purpose and intensity.”
Yesterday students were asked to identify something they needed to change in their lives in order to align themselves with the truth. Today they were encouraged to see the changes they need to make in their lives as “a journey” and not as a magic fix.
“In our suffering, in our tragedies, in our broken relationships, God has poured love into us so we can pour into other people,” he said. “How are you going to do that in your friend group? In your youth group? In your family?”
This morning’s chapel began with prayer requests and time for students to pray with each other.
1. How did you use your challenge card from yesterday?
2. What are some of your thoughts about loving loud?
3. What are some examples of being a “spiritual spiller?”
4. Do you think we “spill” more than we “pour” into the lives of our friends and family? Why or Why not?
5. On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you think you rate when it comes to pouring into others?
6. What are some ways you can be more intentional about pouring into the lives of others?
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