Hello my name is Justin Griesinger and CSM this week was absolutely amazing! All the people that came, the new smiling faces, and the powerful message! What else can you truly ask for? God really moved in a big way as a eight students came to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior!! God is great! This week was the combination of week four and five of The Whole In Our Gospel series it was about how Christians in America need to stop following the American Dream and follow Jesus. America today says that the key to success is how much money you make, how cool your car is, how big your house is, or what clothes you wear. Gods way is the way to go! We talked about Mark 12:41-44, this is about the poor widow that put in all she had to give to Jesus and he said to everyone she was the one who gave the most. Mark 12:43-44, "Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, 'Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything-all she had to live on.'" The other people who were wealthy put more money but they didnʼt give until it hurt like the widow did. She was living with audacious faith like Steven Furtick talks about in his latest book Sun Stand Still. Audacious faith is having total faith in God and standing for him with no fear, trusting that he will provide. I want to be known down the road as someone who had audacious faith. We need to learn that the money we get isnʼt our money at all, it is Godʼs money. This brings me to helping the people who arenʼt as fortunate as us. Lets face it, even as teenagers with a part time job if you make 100 dollars a week you are still in the top 15 percent of the world in annual income. That is 75 percent of the worlds population below even teenagers with part time jobs. Our challenge for the week was to give something up whether it be not going out for coffee to not buying that new video game to help someone! The students of CSM are deciding to do something about it we are sponsoring a well for children who donʼt have clean drinking water through charity: water. So far we are around 30 percent there and have 70 percent more to go! To be honest I wasnʼt open to the series at first, but now I am ready to go out and change the world as a youth group and this is how we are doing it! I cannot wait to see what Will Kranz has to say next week in our last week of the Hole In Our Gospel series. I want to invite you next week to come to CSM if you havenʼt been before! It is one of the highlights of my week coming to CSM and its something I always look forward to! Love you guys! God Bless yʼall!
Justin
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