From Head to Toe

April 26, 2010

Another great post by Christina Melton —

I haven’t posted about teenage ministry in a while, so I will go ahead and do that, for those of you who are curious.

It is difficult to come up with activities and topics from week to week, so this last we we did some cooking together. Of course, we had no idea that it would take an hour and a half to cook 2 kg of cevapi (a type of sausage).

I am continually finding that it is not that hard to study the Bible; however, it is another thing entirely to try to live out what it says.

One of my teenagers asked me as we were all cooking, “What are we learning about today? Jesus cooks? Is cevapi in the Bible?” (joking, of course)

My response was simply, “Nope! Just cooking!” But I guess we were doing a little more than that.

“Love is patient; love is kind…”

“Bear with one another…”

“Consider not only your own needs, but the needs of others as well.”

We have been talking about how Jesus treated the people that society considered annoying (Zaccheus) or unintelligent (fishermen) or “sinful” (the adulterous woman in John 8). Cooking was an opportunity to see if any of those stories transferred into real-life “I’m so hungry!” situations.

I think our guys did a pretty good job. Paul once wrote that “the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love” and “there is no law against such things.”

Moving from head knowledge to honoring Jesus by living according to His word, through His strength, is pretty difficult and often painful. It hurts when we don’t get what we want, when we want it.

Our guys patiently waited, were willing to help cut potatoes and flip pancakes (desert!), and to serve even the adults upstairs who were not part of our teenage meeting. Good job, guys!

I think next time though, we will cook something that doesn’t require so much time…

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