Youth Retreat Theme Feedback

I had a great weekend speaking to the middle school and high school students from churches in Georgia and South Carolina.

Their theme was great and filtered around GRACE.

I never know if I really impact anyone's life. Apparently I did this weekend and this young lady, Rebecca, seemed to really grasp the message, in fact she wrote this note on Facebook and shared an incredible different angle from my theme from 'The Ancient War'.

Rebecca's note:

"This past weekend I went on a retreat at camp. We had an amazing speaker, named Fledge Fiamingo. You can look him up on SonSafaris.com He is the founder. Fledge has worked at a few different safari locations as the man who drives the truck and takes people on tours, so he knows all about animals.

This weekend he talked about the lions and hyenas. They are enemies. Fledge made the comparison that the male lion is God, the lioness is us, and the hyenas are Satan. But he didn’t talk about this: The hyena is kind of cute. Or at least it is to me. But that the thing.. Sin is cute, sin is attractive. But that didn’t exactly tie in to what he talked about. It makes sense though. You want sin because it’s attractive.

The lion [you] wants the hyena [sin]. They don’t want it because it’s attractive though, the lion wants to eat it, but anyways. A lioness can easily take on a hyena. Or more than one. But soon the hyenas become more and more, and the lioness tries to fight it but when there comes a certain number of hyenas, the lioness can’t do it anymore. They need help. Luckily for the lioness, a hyena won’t take on a male lion, no matter how many hyenas there are.

That’s just like us though. We get involved in sin and we can fight it for a little while, but eventually all of the sin just builds up on us and we can’t do it alone anymore. We need help. We need GOD, the male lion! You can’t do it alone. That’s just something that I got out of the weekend that I really wanted to share. Hope you enjoyed."