Our First Official Stand Meeting!

Hey everyone,

Today was our first official Stand meeting. Why? Because we are now an official club at Redmond High. Our meeting was from 12:30 to 2:00 and it was held in E118, Mr. Barashkoff's room. The attendence was 8. We spent the first half of the meeting voting on names, and ended up keeping The Stand. After that, we prayed and dove into the Word.

The speaker was the one and only Daniel D. who took us into the book of 2 Timothy chapters 3-4 verses 3:10 to 4:10. He divided these verses into 5 "chunks". Chunk 1 was "qualities of a christian worker." Basically, Paul writes to Timothy about the things that he's (Paul) experienced and embraced, informing him on what Timothy's getting into. Chunk 2 was "qualities of scripture." Paul tells Timothy that all scripture is "God breathed" and that it has the power to change people. Chunk 3 was the "actions of christian workers." The scriptures have the power to change peoplem therefore, preach it. Chunk 4 was the "results of christian workers." Paul uses the analogy of wine on burnt offerings to himself and Jesus. As wine made a pleasant aroma for a burnt offering, the result of Pauls life made him pleasant to Jesus, who sacrificed himself for the sin of the world. Lastly, chunk 5 was the "result of a failing christian." Paul tells Timothy that if you dont keep up in your faith, you will start to stray away from God. Daniel ends with the question, "Are you a Paul, or are you a Demas?"

In our discussion we discovered that most of us were still in between. No matter how hard we try, we cannot become completely selfless and pure but we can strive to be like Paul, who strived to be like Jesus. In our lives today, we tend to live for ourselves instead of for God, and the big conclusion we came to was that we need to start taking steps toward living for Jesus!

Great message Dan!

Nick R. the secretary man