WCBC: Youth Conference this week

[GraceThruFaith]

(04-11-2012 08:07 AM)briceman Wrote:  Preying on these kid's insecurities and emotions.

A perfect summation of all youth conferences. I would know, I went to a similar conference like WCBC's from 7th to 12th grade. I have a couple booklets that contain sermon notes I wrote down. A majority of the sermons are huge emotionally manipulative pep rallies rather than sermons.

The biggest rallies:
1. Soul winning
2. Surrender to preach/to be a missionary/to be a full-time Christian servant
3. Stay in the IFB church and obey your pastor's every word or you'll become an atheist/bitter rebel/New Evangelical/etc.
4. Finding God's will. Because God's will is only 3 things: going to the right college, choosing the right career (anything in the ministry, anything else isn't God's will), and choosing the right spouse.
5. Staying pure

[Sharon]

(04-16-2012 06:25 PM)GraceThruFaith Wrote:  

(04-11-2012 08:07 AM)briceman Wrote:  Preying on these kid's insecurities and emotions.

A perfect summation of all youth conferences. I would know, I went to a similar conference like WCBC's from 7th to 12th grade. I have a couple booklets that contain sermon notes I wrote down. A majority of the sermons are huge emotionally manipulative pep rallies rather than sermons.

The biggest rallies:
1. Soul winning
2. Surrender to preach/to be a missionary/to be a full-time Christian servant
3. Stay in the IFB church and obey your pastor's every word or you'll become an atheist/bitter rebel/New Evangelical/etc.
4. Finding God's will. Because God's will is only 3 things: going to the right college, choosing the right career (anything in the ministry, anything else isn't God's will), and choosing the right spouse.
5. Staying pure

sounds a lot like camp at the Wilds.

[C_Fresh]

(04-16-2012 06:25 PM)GraceThruFaith Wrote:  

(04-11-2012 08:07 AM)briceman Wrote:  Preying on these kid's insecurities and emotions.

A perfect summation of all youth conferences. I would know, I went to a similar conference like WCBC's from 7th to 12th grade. I have a couple booklets that contain sermon notes I wrote down. A majority of the sermons are huge emotionally manipulative pep rallies rather than sermons.

The biggest rallies:
1. Soul winning
2. Surrender to preach/to be a missionary/to be a full-time Christian servant
3. Stay in the IFB church and obey your pastor's every word or you'll become an atheist/bitter rebel/New Evangelical/etc.
4. Finding God's will. Because God's will is only 3 things: going to the right college, choosing the right career (anything in the ministry, anything else isn't God's will), and choosing the right spouse.
5. Staying pure

I had chapel notebooks in college, although that was only because they decided they needed to make sure we were paying attention. I think it was my last two years. Once or twice a semester they would collect them and take a look at our notes. I know a couple people who got demerits for using some of the back pages for passing notes. I really don't remember much of them and I tossed each notebook after the semester ended.