What is your Question?

This morning we worked through answering students questions about life, Jesus, following Him, the Church, and issues facing middle schoolers.

As one might expect, they have some good questions. Like:

• Why do people stereotype others?
• How do I talk about Jesus with my friends?
• If we are made in the image of God, why is there sin?
• Who created God?
• Is there more to the Christian life than accepting Jesus and going to church?
• Wanna be a ninja?
• Why are we writing down questions?

We actually started with that last one, since it may seem odd to ask questions in church. Why is that? Perhaps we have been programmed to not think too deeply or too much, but just go through the motions. Yet, we all have questions, and Jesus welcomed people to ask Him questions. Every few weeks we plan to give space and time to wrestling with life questions.

When we don’t ask questions our minds simply run with the preconceived notions running around in their (our thoughts, attitudes and desires), which come out in our words, lead to actions, and ultimately form and display our character. Just like we taught about last week: