TBC Youth Group

May has been a bad month for David, at work, so he hasn’t had a lot of time to plan Youth Group events. Which is why we resorted to having another Games Night.

Not many people showed up at 7:00. (In fact, just David.) People eventually started to come, in dribs and drabs. The first hour or so of the night was simply spent hanging out, John, David, and some of the kids, and talking. (Someone asked what we were doing for the night, and John responded that we were having a three hour Bible study. “Go hard or go home!” Some people weren’t sure if he was joking or not.)

When some more of the boys came, they went downstairs to play basketball, and the rest of us stayed upstairs. Because we were doing the whole night so loosy-goosy, we decided to let them continue playing, and we’d do the devotion at the end of the night, instead of the beginning.

Strangely enough, the boys ended the basketball without the leaders having to go and get them. They actually came up around 9:30, when David was expecting to have to go down at 10:00 and drag them up by their hair. So we did the devotion. John talked about what makes “church” different from what we do at Youth Group; the three things we mentioned that a “church” does, that distinguish it from Youth Group, are:

1. The Church preaches the Gospel—We do that at Youth Group, too.
2. The Church practices the Sacraments (the Lord’s Table, and baptism)—we don’t do that at Youth Group
3. The Church, when necessary, disciplines its members—we don’t really do that at Youth Group, either

Anyone who professed to be a Christian was urged to think about attending a church, if s/he didn’t already. After devotion, we went home.

Next week will be the final Youth Group of the year, and we’ll be having a BBQ to end the year right.