Ignite: Showing Students God's Greatness

Posted August 3, 2023

We completed the first year of our new Ignite Youth camps! Students studied God’s holiness, sovereignty, and love, with a personal response being one of worship, trust, and love. This begins our four year Ignite curriculum rotation on the attributes of God.

Studying God’s nature is deeper than knowing who God is theologically. As one of our Bible teachers explained to the students:

“Our hearts’ cry as leaders is for you to desire God above all else.”
Ben Schneeweiss

Students read many passages, including Psalm 63, a prayer of longing for and loving God more than anything. We believe that seeing God rightly (through Scripture) leads to this response. We’re praying that students would taste and see God’s greatness and goodness (Ps. 34:8), and that would transform their hearts and lives.

“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more…” AW Tozer

We’re praying that the Scriptural truths would whet appetites for God (both satisfying and making thirsty for more of Him). As they encounter the greatness of God, we pray the students will see Him as better than all else, and yet recognize their need for His grace to love Him most, pursue holiness, and live a life of worship and trust in Jesus. 

Praises

  • Students dug into God’s powerful living and active Word: studying, memorizing, meditating on, and discussing it.
  • The teachers and counselors who guided the students in spiritual conversations.
  • Safety and protection during the camp weeks.
  • Our staff, teachers, and counselors walked away from Ignite weeks encouraged and motivated for next summer!

Pray For

  • God to ignite students’ hearts to know Him more, dig into His Word, and ask questions.
  • Students to view themselves in light of God’s holiness, and confess their sin as God reveals it (1 Jn. 1:9), leading to ongoing reliance on Jesus.
  • Parents to continue faithfully discipling their kids in God’s Word.
  • The truths heard and Scriptures read/memorized at Ignite to take root in hearts and grow as students return to their homes and church communities.

     


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