{"id":7285,"date":"2020-05-06T00:10:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T05:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2020-05-06T00:10:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T05:10:52","slug":"good-news-youth-devotional-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2020\/05\/06\/good-news-youth-devotional-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News Youth Devotional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/04\/Good-News-Youth-Devotional-2020.cropped.green_-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7239\" width=\"220\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/04\/Good-News-Youth-Devotional-2020.cropped.green_-11.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/04\/Good-News-Youth-Devotional-2020.cropped.green_-11-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2020\/04\/Good-News-Youth-Devotional-2020.cropped.green_-11-560x186.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Maddie Sweeny (Camp Emmaus Counselor (IL))<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 &#8220;&#8230;encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this section of Paul\u2019s letter to the people of the\nThessalonian church he just finished thanking and praising the people for their\ngood faith and has moved on to reminiscing on how he discipled them. Paul talks\nabout how he, Silas, and Timothy came to their village with only honest\nintentions and the purpose to share the Good News with love in their hearts.\nPaul and the others work side by side people of this church as equals without\nburdens. While working side by side, that is when they shared not only the\nGod\u2019s Good News but their own lives as well. Paul was willing to get personal\nwith the people. Paul and the disciples nurture the people\u2019s spiritual growth\nand show the people love like a parent while encouraging them to live a holy\nlife. Paul\u2019s description in this letter on how they earned the trust and built\nrelationships with the people of the Thessalonian church is a good lesson on\nhow we can build relationships and disciple within our community. Again, Paul\nemphasizes how he worked side by side with the people instead of using their\nauthority as apostles of Christ to gain trust. Just being a good student or\nworking everyday with others and being a good example of Christ can help\nencourage others around you to the path of Christ. Are you a good example of\nChrist in your everyday living? What are some things you can do to improve that\nif you feel that you are not? Do you ever feel discouraged when talking about\nyour faith among your friends? Paul too had moments where he suffered and had\nopposition while trying to spread the Good News, but God will give courage to\nkeep going. Overall, Paul shows us, with God in your heart, that providing love\nand being humble goes a long way, can help build strong connections, and\nprovide the way to live a worthy life.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Good News:<\/strong> Sharing the good news of Jesus means spreading love <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion Question:<\/strong> Who in your community reminds you most of Paul in Thessalonica? What are somethings people have done or said to make you open to new ideas? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Go one step further:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"By Our Love: For King And Country\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cEwb51LawAI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maddie Sweeny (Camp Emmaus Counselor (IL)) 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12 &#8220;&#8230;encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God&#8230;&#8221; In this section of Paul\u2019s letter to the people of the Thessalonian church he just finished thanking and praising the people for their good faith and has moved on to reminiscing on how he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[26,516,715],"class_list":["post-7285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","category-youth-young-adults","tag-1-thessalonians-2","tag-good-news-youth-devotional-2020","tag-maddie-sweeny"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}