Tonight, I was watching the movie Saved! with Mandy Moore and Macully Culken and thought about my youth group and the youth group I currently attend. The one that I currently attend, I dont really know much about except for the fact that the people running it and the students in it seem to be way more on fire and focused on God than the youth group I went to in junior high and high school.
But, I can't help but think that there has to be a Hillary Faye and Mary (what was her last name?) in every youth group. Maybe not to the extant as the characters in the movie but all the same. I know that the youth group that I was part of growing up had a Hillary Faye for sure, in fact I think we may have had 2, at different times.
So much drama and backstabbing went on in this movie that I couldnt help but relate to so much of it. I mean, not all of it but for the most part, in my going on 8 years of being involved in youth ministry I have pretty much seen it all!
I know that I'm not perfect and I dont know whether I am proud or not to not be a Hillary but I have to wonder that if she were a real person what would God think? I mean yea, she wasnt the nicest person, and she definately had a weird way of doing things, but she did try to win souls for Christ, and ultimately isnt that what we are placed on this earth for? I'm not trying to say lets all go out and throw Bibles at people and try to perform excorcists on our backslidden friends but her heart was in the right place.
The movie although a bit sac-religious does have a good point. No matter what our sin, God will always love us and forgive us.
I guess I'm just going through a time of learning. Learning that just like God forgives us for everything I need to forgive everyone for the things they have done to those I love and to me.
AHHHH Lord, I need your help so much right now! Please lead me!
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