Voltage Youth Ministries - Castle Rock Colorado - Five Star Student Ministry
Summers just about over! Soak up the last rays of sun with Voltage!
Come to the Java Guru August 17th @ 5:45 pm! We will be taking the Voltage Van to the Rec Center near DCHS.
Be sure to bring a swim suit and towel!! See you there!
Voltage Youth Ministries is using their offerings to help build a well for a village in Ethiopia. The cost of building a well in Ethiopia is only $1500.00 and would provide clean water for a village where water is scarce. In addition, the government of Ethiopia will build a church for the village in which a well is built with 30 Christian believers. We love church planting, and believe God can use Voltage Youth Ministries to build a church around the world. Updated 1/5/10
Meditative Bible Reading also known as "Lectio Divina" is a great tool you can use to connect with God and his Word. Meditating on God and his Word is Biblical. God commanded Joshua and the people of Israel to meditate on the book of law (first 5 books of the Bible) day and night (Joshua 1:8). David wrote in Psalm 119:15, "I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways." This was a recurring theme of David's throughout the book of Psalm, and God considered him a man after his own heart. One of the other benefits to meditating is that you are giving God an opportunity to speak to you. The following steps will help you meditate on God's Word:
1. Reading - choose a short passage of scripture from the Bible and read it slowly several times.
2. Application - Ask yourself, "How does this passage or something in this passage apply to me personally."
3. Opening Your Heart - Allow God to speak to you. Say a short prayer to God, to show you what it is that he would have you know.
4. Listening - Listen for Him. (Most likely you won't hear his voice audibly; but you may hear it in a thought, a whisper, a dream, or a vision.)
Tips: Get rid of any distactions: cell phone. ipod, computer
Find a quiet place (comfortable and peaceful)
It may help to have a worship CD playing in the background.
The Romans Road is an evangelistic tool that uses a series of verses from the Biblical book of Romans to describe what someone needs to do to go to heaven. It is a great tool for sharing your faith with someone who is interested in making a committment to God. You can learn how to share your faith using scripture too, by marking in your Bible using the following steps.
Open to the first page of your Bible.
Step 1 - Mark in the Beginning of your Bible - Romans 3:23 (and the page number)
Step 2 - Turn to Romans 3:23 and underline it, then write somewhere on the page Romans 6:23 (and the page number)
Step 3 - Flip to Romans 6:23 and undlerine it, then write somewhere on the page Romans 5:8 (and the page number)
Step 4 - Flip to Romans 5:8 and undlerine it, then write somewhere on the page Romans 10:9-10 (and the page number)
Step 5 - Flip to Romans 10:9-10 and undlerine it, also underline Romans 10:13
Now you are ready to flip through the scriptures and explain the gospel to anybody.
What the scriptures say (NLT):
Romans 3:23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
Romans 10:9-10 If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.
Romans 10:13 For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Why we should tell? Everyone who call themselves a Christian, should tell others about Salvation though Jesus Christ, not out of obligation, but because of God's grace and mercy. God has saved you from the burning pits of hell and his desire is that everyone finds salvation by believing in Jesus. So out of the overflow of the joy, you receive from your Salvation, we tell others the good news, that can help save their souls.
