It may seem impossible, but we know the LORD wants to bring life to this generation. We exist to resurrect a generation.

Awaken’s Mission Statement:

We exist to see a generation come alive through relationship with Jesus, grow in a life consumed by faith and compassion, and be equipped to make disciples.

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Here’s how we applied it to the students:

1. We let them know how important they were to God
2. They have a destiny (that’s happening now, not later)
3. They are not alone

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He made it clear that everything begins on the foundation of Jesus and our relationship with Him. Upon that we are to build good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, and loving others. And all of this is to point back to Jesus.

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We looked at the passages of Scripture where Paul is discussing his personal relationship with Jesus and how he had counted everything else as loss (garbage, dung, dog dung — depending on your translation).

The question of the night was: “Do you have dog poop in your life?”

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Last night, June 10th, we started a new series called “Deeper”.

The challenge from last night can be summed up in one question: “If Heaven or Hell were not an issue, would you even care about God?”

So often our relationship with God has been limited to our ticket into Heaven and Him helping us in time of need. Both of those are part of it, but they are not the whole part of it.

If we say we love God and truly have a relationship with Him:

1. He should have our heart
2. He should have our attention
3. He should have our pursuit

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They were:

1. Bad things happen to good people

2. Integrity

3. Lust

4. Opinions about God

We can all learn a great deal about life and our relationship with God through Job’s example. One of those things is that we can know and understand that God is really on our side.

From Last Night:

Everyone has their opinion about God. Most of those opinions are probably not true. We have to base our relationship with Him upon truth and not those false opinions.

3 specific truths we saw about God through the life of Job were:

1. He loves to show mercy
2. He loves to bless those in relationship with Him
3. He is faithful

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Romans 5 gives us a clear picture of how God sees us because of Jesus: a friend, justified and in a place of highest privilege.