Youth Advance is a youth conference that takes place once a year and lasts a whole weekend. Its basically a time for fellow Christian teens to get together, hang out, be instructed in biblical teachings, and to honor and worship God.
I attended my first and last Youth Advance last weekend. I have to say for me, it was an awesome experience. I got to talk and fellowship with so many people that were able to encourage me in tons of ways. Just being around so many teens that believed in the same God as me was an awesome thing. I've been so used to the foul and corrupted ways of most of my fellow students in college that this trip was very refreshing for me.
I think the one thing that I took from Youth Advance 2011, also being something I had never really thought too much about before, was the realization of how much God really loves his son....the magnitude of the love that God has for Jesus is like none other. The fact that God would send this son that he loves so much down to earth to die for us sinners who still even after knowing this, mock his death by continuing to sin, blows my mind. In my Church care group we really thought deep into the fact that no matter what we do, we will never be able to repay God for his ultimate sacrifice...so the question we asked eachother was why do we find it so hard to make God the the ultimate centerpiece of our lives, being that its the least we could ever fathom of doing?
Anyway, Youth Advance convicted me of many new sins that I had been drowning in lately, it really gave me a boost of Christ that I was desperately in need of. It was an experience that is going to stick with me for quite some time. I was blessed to be able to attend.
"To You, the nations bow down
To You, creation cries out
Majesty
All things You hold together
Your name will stand forever
Majesty
You are, Majesty"
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