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From: Chris Cochrun <chris@tfcconnection.org>
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To: Leni Heckman <leniheckman@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Beginning Well - "I've never read the Bible before ok!"
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:13:35 -0500
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Thanks so much Leni! It's a joy to help them understand who they are! Been having some awesome conversations with them!
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Chris
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Leni Heckman <leniheckman@yahoo.com> writes:
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I love this Chris!! When I work with teenagers, I tell them all the time that their job is to figure out who
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they are. I am not always able to use scripture, but sometimes I can. It is a very important time and
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parents don't always like teens because they are pushing boundaries and questioning things. But that
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is what they are supposed to be doing. Parents can know they have done a good job if this is
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happening to a normal degree.
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Keep up the great work! (LOVE that pic of Josiah with the kitty--he looks fierce!)
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Leni
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On Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 02:03:29 PM MDT, Chris Cochrun <chris@tfcconnection.org> wrote:
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Beginning Well
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“I’ve never read the Bible before ok!”
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I know that more often than I care to admit I complain about how our world is going to poop, but if
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I just stopped and read scripture for a more often, I think I'd see more of God's answers for all of
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the worlds problems, and guess where it's found? That's right, His Word. This year we've been
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diving very hard into Identity and Purpose in our lessons. And the best place to learn about
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ourselves is diving into God's word to see how and why He made us! That's the strange part about
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it, it means in order for us to know ourselves enough, we have to know God well! We'll be reading
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Genesis 1-3 all year. Slowly making our way through it as we try to understand the complex ideas
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of our existence on this planet.
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Reading Genesis though, we have some kids who've never even read a Bible at all before. "What
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are verses again?" "It's the ones with the little numbers next to them!" "I've never read a Bible
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before ok!?"
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We laughed and had a good time, but how fun it is to get to help someone read the Bible for the
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first time! And to think, she'll be digging into a hard topic with us like Identity and Purpose! I'm
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beginning to think that this year is for those kids. Those kids who have never really read the Bible
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before, or they've never been in a church before, or they've heard about it but just never tried
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going to church or even really listening to what God wants to tell them. I have a book on my desk
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titled Beginning Well by Gordon T. Smith. It's all about the first steps of a new Christian and how
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important those first steps are. As I've been re-reading it from time to time, I was thinking of my
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junior high group. Many of them, are new to Christian things as a whole, they've not been around
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it much at all in their lives. I think this will be an incredible opportunity for our lesson theme.
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Identity and Purpose. That's a big idea, it's also a vague idea, and a powerful one. People all over
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the world want answers to questions that we plan to deal with this year. Who am I and Why am I
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here? Is marriage still relevant? And a lot more! The first one we dealt with was, "Who am I and
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Why am I here". Have you ever had that thought? I'm sure you have, I have too, A LOT! That's why
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we are dealing with those questions this year. And reading Genesis is the best place to do that! It
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deals with all of those questions and more! Where else would one go to see how God intended
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things to be?! On top of that, Genesis is so rich, it's such a perfect tutorial for how to read the Bible!
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Those first 3 chapters are filled with the things you'll see all over scripture, stories, repetition,
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poetry, and tough topics!
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The Junior High group has just been a ton of fun! We have played goofy games, and some
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great talks, and so much more! Please pray for these faces and more! That they are
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getting to know the Lord well this year!
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It's our prayer that students who really wish to know more about the world around them will see
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answers in God's Word that change their entire outlook on life. It's my prayer that the kids who
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have never read the Bible before will BEGIN WELL. They'll start at the beginning, understand where
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they've come from, why their here, and they'll want others to know that as well. It's my prayer too
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that as we use Genesis to help us answer those questions, students at every level will learn how to
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read the Bible in a way that will equip them to do it for the rest of their lives!
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My junior high group has mostly been these junior high girls who have hardly read the Bible
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before. It's kind of scary to think that most of our young minds in our schools are in the same boat.
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A vast majority of them just have never really needed to. Pray for them. Pray for the girls in my
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group who've admitted they've never read a Bible before, pray that they'll find some very
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interesting and compelling things in there! Pray that they'll want others to read along with them as
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well!
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Some Events Coming Up
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TFC has had a tough time getting certain events back up and running after COVID forced us to stop
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bringing the groups together. Luckily, we are working hard at getting things back to normal! After
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this summer of getting to do mission trip and camp, we'll be do TFC-wide 180 Encounters again.
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These 180 Encounters are like a giant TFC night where all the groups come together and get to
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hear from one of the high school leaders and how God has been changing and challenging them.
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It's a really cool thing to watch high schoolers take their walk with Christ so seriously that they in
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turn want to share with their peers and kids younger than them about Jesus. Pray for the 180 group
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who've been planning this first Encounter on the 24th!
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We'll also be getting to do Leadership Retreat again this year at the end of October! The theme is
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WORD: what, why, and how. I'll have to be honest in that I'm not entirely sure what that all means
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since I'm not on the team planning it, but I'm confident in our crew that it's linked to our theme this
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year and drawing our leaders deeper into the Word of God. Pray that this even has a profound
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impact on our high school leaders as they sacrifice a weekend to dig in deep. God has always been
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so good to us in this event. It really is a breath of fresh air for our high schoolers who've been so
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busy!
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We've enjoyed a lot of things this last month! Kittens, football and even new furniture covers! Josiah
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and Luke sure love playing with our new kitten and sometimes each other!
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