- You should prepare your speaking to be around 25-30 minutes for each session. This means you won't have time to cover every point. Please consider one or two main points or burdens for your speaking. Furthermore, please select some portions from the lesson books for the young people to read during the group times.
- It is very important to realize that the nature of the Summer School of Truth is that of a restaurant. We are here to feed the young people and not merely giving them some teaching. We don't want the young people to just "look at the menu" without "eating any food."
- We want to serve fresh food to the young people, not something old and stale. For this we must enjoy God's word as His breath! We need to pray over and enjoy the lessons to inhale the word into our being so that our speaking would be an exhaling full of spirit and life.
- It cannot be stressed enough that we need to apply the lessons to the young people to make it relevant to them. When we share something, we need to always ask the question "so what?" This is to consider why the lesson we are sharing would be important to a junior high or high school student. This is especially true for these lessons on the two spirits. For this we need to have much consideration of the environment the young people live in, the problems they face, the struggles they have, etc. This will help us reach them at their level. As we prepare the lesson, we should pray not only for the lesson, but even more for the young people. Often through this kind of prayer, the Lord will give us a fresh burden as well as the appropriate applications.
- The young people need practical and experiential handles of the truths we present to them. For this consider the appropriate examples, personal testimonies, experiences of others. They often remember stories and illustrations much better than points. However, we need to be also careful not to let the stories and illustrations distract them from getting the point. It's also helpful to give personal testimonies in the lessons. In Thessalonians we see the best way to feed the young and new believers is with patterns.
- Talk to them. Don't preach. It is best not to take the position of a teacher, like that in a secular school. We are not here to pass on knowledge but life. Instead, be an older brother or a father full of loving concern. We all need to be saved from having a critical spirit toward the young people, which disqualifies us from ministering life to them and takes away the ground for us to shepherd them.
- We are all learning together, so don't be afraid to make mistakes. None of us are perfect, but we are under the Lord's perfecting. Through our prayer, fellowship, and coordination in oneness and one accord, the Lord will have a way to fill up all our lack, cover all our shortcomings and pour out His blessing in every lesson! It's also good to take a look at the previous lesson both for the line you are on and the other line. This may help give some continuity.
Monday, July 15, 2024
SSOT Lesson Preparation
Friday, January 6, 2023
Look Away unto Jesus
Look Away unto Jesus (Lead Sheet)
[1]
I just don't know. Where'd the hours go?
Never meant to click on so many videos.
Scrolling, swiping, endless liking.
Clock's tik-tokking. God is calling:
(Chorus)
Look away, Look away unto Jesus!
Don't let this world deceive us.
Stuck again, my friend?
Look away unto Jesus!
Look away! (Look away!) Look away unto Jesus! (Jesus!)
Look away! (Look away!) Look away unto Jesus!
[2]
What I behold is what I reflect.
What do I reflect if it's Jesus I reject?
God wants us to share His story
by refecting Him in glory.
(Chorus)
Look away, Look away unto Jesus! (Look away!)
Don't let this world deceive us.
Stuck again, my friend?
Look away unto Jesus! (Look away!)
Look away! Look away unto Jesus! (Look away!)
Into the eyes of the One who frees us.
Redeem the time! Renew your mind.
Look away unto Jesus!
Look away! Look away unto Jesus!
[3]
Lord, turn my eyes back from vanity.
Bring me once again into Your reality.
I confess these things are worthless.
Lord, transform me for Your purpose.
(Chorus)
Look away, Look away unto Jesus! (Look away!)
Don't let this world deceive us.
Stuck again, my friend?
Look away unto Jesus! (Look away!)
Look away, Look away unto Jesus! (Look away!)
Into the eyes of the One who frees us.
Redeem the time! Renew your mind.
Look away unto Jesus! (Look away!)
Look away! (Look away!) Look away unto Jesus! (Jesus!)
Look away! (Look away!) Look away unto Jesus! (Look away!)
Saturday, October 29, 2022
為主惜取少年時
為主惜取少年時
我要對青少年說一些話。青少年期是從十三歲到十九歲。在十二歲以後，二十歲以前，你有七年的青少年期，這乃是一個人的黃金時期。這七年是黃金年華，極其重要，是人一生決定的因素。在十二歲或以前，你可能一直很隨便、馬虎、無所事事，甚至有點壞。過了十九歲以後，你可能還想要作些壞事，當然那是不正確的。然而，在青少年這七年之中，你不該作任何錯誤的事。你若作了，後果是非常可怕的，也是很冒險的。不要浪費你青少年期的任何一天。每一天、每小時、每一分、每一秒，都必須算得數。我說這話是認真的。
七年不是很長，你的青少年期很快就會過去。如果你這幾年沒有把自己建立起來，你就了了。別的不用說，即便在教育上也是如此。你若在這七年內無法好好為自己的人生奠定美好的根基，特別好好受教育，你就了了。你的學校課業若不及格，即使你嘗試再來一次，也很不容易；這幾乎是不可能的，因為你的青少年期過去了。
要牢記，青少年期在每一方面都是你的黃金時期。嚴格說來，如果你沒有在這七年內建立好的體魄，十九歲以後你的個子會太小，身體也會太弱。如果你期望身體健康、強壯，你必須在這黃金時期作點事。這七年內你不得閒懶，甚至要認真操練身體。你若想要進醫學院或法學院，人會查問你這七年作了多少運動。你若說沒有作任何運動，或者沒有參與任何體育活動，校方也許不會錄取你，即使你的總平均成績超過九十分。
你的人生有許多方面，包括教育、健康、體格、道德、倫理、以及你與主的關係。在這一切當中，首要的是你與主的關係。這點也該是在青少年期建立的。你該愛主，尋求主，追求主，特別是在這七年當中。過了這幾年之後，你要重新有好的開始，就不容易，甚至在尋求主的事上也是如此。
學習語言也是如此。人過了十九歲才學另一種語言是很難的；你永遠學不好。我要說，當你過了青少年期，你再也不能作這種事了。你想要得好成績麼？在青少年期就要努力。你要拔尖的愛主麼？就是現在，因為你過了青少年期以後，才要開始愛主，就不容易了。過了青少年期以後，要開始作什麼都不容易。所以，要在這些年日裡愛主。
約書亞曾命令日頭停住，而延長了一天的時間。（書十12～13。）使日頭停住的路，就是把一日當作一個月來用。一天不要僅僅作一天的工，你必須一天之內完成三十天的工。這樣，你過一年，就會像三十年一樣。在追求主、讀經、愛主、禱告、讚美、並一切事上，你必須努力、竭力、奮鬥並勞苦。
你追求主有多少？如果你說不多或不夠，你就不太有智慧。最聰明的年輕人總是把一天當作三十天用。我是很認真的說這話。在這七年的青少年期，不要浪費一小時或一分鐘，特別在愛主並追求祂的事上，總要抓住時間。
你可能聽過倪柝聲弟兄的事。他年輕時就定意一年內讀新約五十二遍，就是一年內連續每週都讀一遍新約。至終，他成了一本活新約。這就是說，他把一天當作許多天，把一年當作許多年。我給你們這個例子，叫你們能跟隨，作同樣的事。這樣你就絶不會浪費你的時間。甚至去運動也不是浪費時間。你該有預算的運用自己的時間、精力、甚至呼吸。你若這樣作，就不會錯失屬靈範圍、屬靈國度裡的任何一件事。你會得到你當得的。
我勸你們要珍惜這青少年時期。即使你已經十八歲了，你還有一年時間；你要珍惜這一年如同一百年，去得着你所能得的一切。這樣你會發現自己在任何領域，甚至在尋求主的事上，都有所成。
許多基督徒遇到失敗，就是因為他們在許多事上沒有立好根基。看看今天的世界。在美國，許多人已變得一無所是。他們只是行屍走肉，只會呼吸、吃喝、睡眠。他們變得一無所是，因為他們沒有立好根基，使他們人生能有所成。在屬靈的領域中也是這樣。如果你希望在屬靈的領域上、在尋求主的事上能有所成，你必須珍惜你的黃金時期，就是你的青少年期。要盡你所能作一切事；盡你所能更多進入聖經，儘可能有更多的禱告，盡你所有的在聚會中盡功用。要竭盡你的全人，盡全力作這些事。
一九八八年七月三十日在美國加州舊金山與青少年的交通
Friday, October 28, 2022
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
[Video] Don't miss God's operation on your child for salvation
Msg. 4 - Next Generation Conference (R.A.)
Spoken in Irving, Texas by R.A. — February 2020
https://youtu.be/r2rLGT2lel4?t=2460
<<Don't miss God's operation on your child for salvation>>
This just happened. I was somewhere. A father he was driving me to the meeting, and he told me this testimony of his family with his son.
The boy he's probably 10 or 11. He just got a phone. The rules of the house are when go to sleep then stops. You don't go (online). He likes to go online. I think he has a kind of a love of building models. You know the little ships and things. So he likes to go to YouTube and just see how to do certain things. He got caught one night. I don't know if my mom or dad caught him and he got in trouble. His conscience is very tender. So he repented.
A few days later, he comes to his dad. He said daddy I did it again. So he confessed without being caught and confessed. And the father was just thrilled. This is wonderful that he's having experiences like that. But basically his attitude was I forgive you son. Don't worry about it. So he sent the boy and then he was busy with some church things. Then the Lord spoke to him: "What are you doing? You have an opportunity. The Holy Spirit is convicting your son for salvation." So he ran to his wife, told her the story, and says "yes, we got to talk to him".
This was January 1st of this year. So they call the son and they had a little talk. "Why is it, that you can't control that thing, that like you know it's wrong, but you can't. What is that?" They talked to him about sin. We have a sinful nature and the story of creation. They applied at the right time and the boy was saved, in his household, on January 1st, a new beginning.
Saints, each children have their time of life. We have to be on the alert. Don't be too busy with the affairs of this life, and miss those opportunities. Don't even be too busy with the church affairs, preparing for children's meeting or coordinating, that you miss God's operation on your child. If we're faithful to labor on them the right way the right time, eventually there will be a reaping of that seed.
This is from what the family puts in, as well as from what the children's workers put in. This is 2 Timothy 3:15a "And that from a babe you have known the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise unto salvation".
We can experience this in a very spontaneous way. As we have such kind of family living, that complements what they're learning in the children's meeting. And the Lord is really covering them and working on them to bring them to salvation.
Monday, August 22, 2022
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