Peer Pressure

Wednesday night was definitely an amazing time with God, and with each other! Pastor Chad pulled out a trust building game that was a riot...at least the expressions on every one's faces were a riot. *wink* After that we entered a wonderful time of worship (wasn't that a blast? Dancing a singing and praising God? Lol! If you have never experienced worship like that don't be freaked out...we are just super excited about Jesus. I mean, if you were at a football game and someone scored an amazing touchdown, wouldn't you be on your feet whooping and hollering and jumping in excitement? How much more so should we be excited about Jesus setting us free from sin, making such a huge IMPACT in our lives and allowing us to make an IMPACT in the lives of our friends and family?)

and then Angie spoke to us about the issue of Peer Pressure. She shared how she allowed the desire to be popular put pressure on her to grow away from her faith in Jesus and pursue unhealthy ways of living. She shared how this issue affected her marriage and her job and her life even years out of high school and she challenged us to not allow peer pressure (or our own chosen pressures) to make us live in a way or try or do things that we will regret in years to come.

We looked at several verses in the Bible about the pressure that we may experience from others when we choose to follow Christ. In our small groups we read Matthew 6:24, John 15:18-19, Romans 6:16 and Galatians 1:10 and asked the questions, "What thoughts and feelings were stirred up in us from these readings?" "How did this reading relate to our topic tonight?" "What is God saying to us personally through these verses?" "What can we do to live out this scripture in our lives?". We ended the evening by sharing a bit in our small groups about what was stressing us out at the time and praying for each other. 

Our IMPACT challenge for this week was to apply some positive peer pressure on those around us and invite them to IMPACT next Wednesday night at 6:30pm for a St. Patricks Day BUNCO PARTY!!! Wear Green, come for dinner and find out if YOU are our next BUNCO CHAMPION!!!!!