So I just got back from a very exciting and frantic youth week, It is amazing getting to know people and these camps are always very precious. I think in the 'west' we have so much stuff that we don't need and sometimes we can get distracted by that stuff and become lazy. But at camps there are a lot less distractions so it is easier to concentrate on God, but also on the relationships that we are trying to build.

The camp was run by my church and was specifically a Youth Alpha camp and so as well as having fun and building relationships we were trying to get the youth to start having a life long conversation with their maker. The leader of the camp Michiel, also done the talk on Sunday (BUSY MAN!) and he talked, fittingly, about soaring like eagles.
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The whole talk was very encouraging, but one analogy really helped... He was talking about incubating new birds and how it is a very beautiful thing to see... Birds spend hours and hours cracking through there own eggs. But if you help them break their eggs they always end up dying. This is important to remember when we are tryng to 'incubate' new christians... We have to let them fight their own battles and allow them to come to their own conclusion...

We as believers are called to be catalysts for new believers giving them a site to react with the living God. But we also need to be there to help them out if they make mistakes... Everyone makes mistakes... But helping each other and loving each other is what makes us 'church'


Peace out

Ben