{"id":5314,"date":"2018-07-26T17:31:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T17:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2018-10-01T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:39:11","slug":"today-at-nyc-thursday-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2018\/today-at-nyc-thursday-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Today at NYC – Thursday, July 26, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Church of the Brethren Newsline
\nJuly\u00a026,\u00a02018<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThen one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. He prostrated himself at Jesus\u2019 feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan\u201d (Luke 17:15-16).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Quotes of the day:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThese last 15 months I learned more about myself, my faith, and this community…. Thank you so much.\u201d
\n— Kelsey Murray, NYC coordinator, in her final speech to the 2018 National Youth Conference.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe should as a people remember, in our gratefulness we shouldn\u2019t compare ourselves to each other…. True gratitude gets us out of that comparison trip because God doesn\u2019t play favorites…. True gratitude moves us to active compassion rather than comparison.\u201d
\n— Michaela Alphonse, preaching the closing sermon of NYC 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we give thanks to God in the times of pain, and joy, there is blessing.\u201d
\n— Michaela Alphonse on the nature of gratitude. Her scripture text was the story of the healing of the 10 lepers. She noted that the one who returned to Jesus to say thank you was a Samaritan, and that none of Jesus\u2019 countrymen\u00a0 who received the additional blessing of wholeness bestowed by Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI wish I could tell you that everyone\u2019s going to get it when you get home. You\u2019re going to have to testify…of seeing Christ in one another…. Adults, it\u2019s your job to bridge…the words that they [youth] tell so that those around them can hear.\u201d
\n— Josh Brockway, who has served as spiritual director for the conference, giving closing advice and prayers before the participants left NYC.<\/em><\/p>\n