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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21

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Leading a child to faith: C is for Confess

Posted on 19. Jun, 2009 by .

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C is my favorite part. Actually, C is kinda the linchpin of them all. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to admin that we’ve sinned, that we’ve broking a moral code. It’s also not too much to believe in Jesus and to believe what he did for us. A person could admit that they sin and believe in Christ, yet still not be a Christ-Follower. That is where C comes in. C is for confess. Confess that Jesus is Lord.

What does confess mean? What does Lord mean? Come on, we’re talking to kids here. We gotta break it down.

Confess means to say out loud or to say with your mouth.

Lord mean someone who is in charge. A king.… Read the rest

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Leading a child to faith: B is for Believe

Posted on 18. Jun, 2009 by .

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B stand for Believe. Believe what? Believe that Jesus is God’s son and that he died on the cross for our sins.

This is where faith becomes a part of the equation. When reading about the new converts throughout the early part of Acts we see how people believed and were baptized. Many of them had heard for Jesus, but didn’t witness what he had done. They took steps of faith to believe the words of those who witnessed what Jesus had done. Our kids have to take the same steps of faith. Do you believe that the Bible is true? Do you believe that Jesus is God’s son? Do you believe that he lived a perfect life? Do you believe that he died on the cross for your sins?… Read the rest

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Leading a child to faith: A is for Admit

Posted on 17. Jun, 2009 by .

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I use the ABCs of becoming a Christ Follower when leading kids to Christ. It’s easy and it clearly explains the important aspects of becoming a Christ Follower.

So, the first part is to Admit. Admit that we are a sinner.

I usually have to define admit and sometimes even clearly explain what a sinner or sin is. We usually decide that admit means to say that you did something. Close enough. So to admit that I’m a sinner means that I say that I’ve done wrong. I’m coming clean, letting everyone know that I’m not perfect. It’s an essential first step. If wrong has been committed yet no one has admitted to it, there is a breakdown in the relationship.… Read the rest

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Kid’s baptisms: Are we focusing on what is most important?

Posted on 17. Jun, 2009 by .

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Okay, I thought I had finished this little series, but the conversation in the comments in this post has continued and has prompted me to write one more post.

I’ll be honest. I’m still really wrestling with what we’re going to do here at Gateway. For us to prevent kids to be baptized when it’s happening spontaneously like this seems very anti-Gateway. I don’t feel comfortable with it. However I must admit that every day I think about this, I dislike doing what we’re doing even more. I think I’ve narrowed it down and reached a conclusion on what is most important.

I feel it might be dangerous to allow kids to decide to get baptized because they feel like it the day we’re doing it as a church.… Read the rest

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Leading a child to faith

Posted on 16. Jun, 2009 by .

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I love leading kids to faith. It’s the best thing in the world. Actually I really love baptizing kids too or at least helping parents baptize their kids as well. It’s just one of the perks of being a children’s pastor. If evangelism is your thing, then children’s ministry is the place to be. The largest number of decisions for Christ happen with kids, so it’s where they fish are biting.

So, I’m starting a little series on leading a child to faith. I know this sounds a little remedial, but perhaps something I write will give someone some ideas. What I enjoy the most is hearing how you’re doing it differently, which often gives me new ideas to improve what I’m doing.… Read the rest

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Baptism Cannonball

Posted on 15. Jun, 2009 by .

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I’ve always wanted to do this. Yesterday I did. baptism were over and we were emptying the pool.

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Kid’s baptisms: Post baptism summary

Posted on 15. Jun, 2009 by .

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So last week I shared what we’re doing for baptisms at Gateway. This weekend we actually had our baptisms at both our South and North Campus.

I met with a 9 year old girl for about 30 minutes to talk about baptism (she couldn’t make any of the classes). She knew lot’s about faith, but hadn’t ever made a decision to follow Christ. So, it was cool to pray with her and her mom and she was subsequently very excited to get baptized. I baptized her at one service and a set of twins at the next.  At the North Campus I baptized four or five kids and assisted two sets of parents in baptizing their kids.

Glorious!

We actually didn’t have any last minute kids show up.… Read the rest

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14

Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by .

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The Facebook Landgrab

Posted on 13. Jun, 2009 by .

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By the time you read this, you may have been too late.

Facebook just opened up the ability to grab vanity URLs that point to your profile page. Up until now, your profile page would look something like this: www.facebook.com/394058872990049458 (or something like that). Now you can replace that meaningless number with something easy to remember, like your name!

If you’ve logged in to facebook anytime recently, they’ve had an ad telling about it. I have been thinking about it, but I actually forgot and was about an hour late. How big of a deal is this? Well, in the first 3 minutes, 200,000 URLs were reserved. Crazy. I guess it’s important to some people. It will be interesting to see how many end up going in the first day.… Read the rest

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