Middle School Winter Camp - Session 1!

We kicked off our first session here at camp with a little worship...

Our theme this year is “Vote!” 

Not just because it’s an election year but because we “vote” 

every single day with the choices we make! 

(Every single little choice…hundreds of them…All. Day. Long.)

In Session 1 we talked about “Jesus vs Sin” by looking at the very first sin in Genesis 3:1-24.

In tonight's campaign, Jesus stands for life & heaven while sin stands for death & hell.

Sin brings death...

"Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned." (Romans 5:12)

 Jesus brings life!

"So that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 5:21)

 But we're given the choice between death & life!

"See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." (Deuteronomy 30:15-20)

As we wrap up each session this weekend our students are challenged to actually take a ballot card, make a decision and vote!