At the Asbury Project Conference, over 30 college and seminary students submitted plans for businesses that they hoped would be profitable and socially enriching additions to the common good. I was buoyed up by the energy, compassion and business acumen of the students. There is a great deal of hope for the future.
“From very early on Christians buried their dead near their places of worship. Where others placed their dead outside of cities and avoided such sites, Christians often celebrated the anniversaries of the death of their martyrs with the Lord’s Supper. Oftentimes this celebration was held at the place where the martyr was buried. Soon, many churches included the bones of the martyrs within the church building. Since death was not the final word about our bodily existence, it didn’t need to be something fearful. Christians understood that to be absent from the body was to be present with the Lord and there was no place where the Lord was more present than in the community gathered for worship. The understanding was that in Christ all are one.”
In this episode of The Threshing Floor podcast, the guys host Jeremy Steele, author of Reclaiming the Lost Soul of Youth Ministry. The show is also giving away 2 copies of his book, so be sure to join the conversation and share your youth ministry stories for a chance to win!
