The evening began when Nicole invited everyone to get a plate of snacks. There were lots of options available: fruits and vegetables, chips, cookies, and drinks. Genesis Youth discovered that organic can be defined as "natural...pure...and essential." Organic can also have the connotation of being expensive and labor intensive.
Genesis Youth quickly realized that the parallels between organic produce and an organic relationship with God are very familiar. While we want our relationship with God to be natural and pure and without additives, it will require each of us to make sacrifices and seek wisdom to discern God's will - which will cost us.
Genesis Youth immediately connected with Margaret and her down-to-earth personality in the video; her soothing voice and passion for worshiping God is inspiring. Margaret's spiritual intensity is contagious too. The next several weeks are going to be adventurous as Genesis Youth embark on this journey of spiritual reconnection to God without additives and pollutants.
If you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you search with all your heart and soul. ~ Dueteronomy 4:29
...Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. ~ Luke 11:9-10
Your challenge this week: eliminate the barriers, or excuses, that get in the way of your relationship with God. Lose the distractions and focus on an organic relationship with the Creator of the universe. Remember the promise in Luke: anyone who asks will receive and anyone who knocks will find doors open.
Genesis Youth, I challenge you to read your "Organic God" workbook each day and answer the questions that we did not finish during fellowship. Remember, this is about your own personal journey to reconnect with the Organic God; study Scripture and ask God for spiritual hunger.
Below are several questions for Genesis Youth to answer. Share your thoughts by submitting a comment below.
What are your thoughts on Margaret Feinberg and "The Organic God" Bible study?
Natural. Pure. Essential. We learned tonight that these words describe "organic." What would an organic relationship with God mean to you?
What did you learn or discover about yourself tonight?
Read Acts 17:27, how does this Scripture make you feel?
1 comment:
I thought today went really well! From the time Nicole started the trailer of the study, I knew that I would like it. I thought that we had great discussion and time to think and be challenged of what I believe.
Organic and God have many things in common... purity, good and healthy for the body and soul, requires more commitment than "going with the flow" or what the norm is and they are both real. God is Natural, Pure, Essential, and Organic.
It reminded me that to have a relationship with God, to really try and be close to God, is to put all distractions or "additives" aside and let God be my #1 devotion and meditation. Though very difficult to do, and no one can be in that devotion continually, I was reminded to constantly try to yearn for God. And to allow myself to learn things through all the opportunities and life experiences I go through to help my relationship with God grow.
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