You Redefine me…

Last Sunday night we held our first Redefine meeting after our summer break. It was great to see some new faces as well as the regular attendees that we last saw before the summer holidays.

As we have done at our Sunday evening Bible Study and Discipleship group a couple of years previously, we are going through our ‘We Believe‘ series, where we look at some of the things that Redefine is defined by: ‘Found People Find People‘, ‘Saved People Serve People‘, ‘Everyone is a Worship Leader‘, ‘Growing People Change‘, and ‘You can’t do life alone.’

Last Sunday we explore ‘Found People Find People‘.

Tim posed a question, when he says the word ‘found‘ what associated word comes to mind? We have may varied responses, including ‘Chicken‘?!?! However the majority responses were ‘lost‘ and ‘missing‘. We to a major extent looked at the negative or opposite of found, rather than the greatness of found and what it might mean to be found by God.

We then looked at the gospel of Matthew where Jesus talks about us loving God with all our heart, all our soul & all our mind and loving our neighbours as ourselves. What did that mean to us today? In what ways can we demonstrate love for God and love for our fellow man?

The young people came up with some great responses, such as ‘worshipping God‘, ‘Doing what God tells us to do‘, and ‘Loving other people‘.

It was a great and challenging time, where we had opportunity to reflect upon how great God’s love for us is.

We finished off the night by writing the names of people that we wanted to be found by God( even ourselves if we were feeling a little lost in life’s journey) on post it notes that we stuck on a wooden cross as an act of prayer and offering the people up to God.

All in all it was a brilliant night and a great start to the ‘We Believe‘ series at Redefine.

Please do continue to pray for the events we hold, such as Redefine and Reverb and if you know of any young people that you think would benefit from attending them, please do encourage them to come along.

Be blessed!