Well this week at my Church we are just over half way through our Vacation Bible School. Do you remember VBS when you were a kid? The songs the games, the snacks, and crafts, and of course some great Bible lessons. There are probably a good number of you that trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior at VBS. VBS is a foundation of many churches as year after year they dedicate one week, for about 3 hours per day, and hold Vacation Bible School.
Why am I telling you all this? Well this year I had the privilege of being the Director of our VBS. I was tasked with the responsibility of recruiting a volunteer army to lead a group of children ranging from 2-12 into a deeper understanding of who Jesus Christ is. Along this journey I have ran into a few snags when establishing the awesome team that we ended up with.
Baseball games, and other activities have prevented many from participating at all, and many others to only a day or two. Now before I make my main point for today, let me tell you how thank full I am for any, and every volunteer we have. However I came across a realization that it is getting harder and harder to recruit volunteers, as peoples lives are getting more and more busy with things outside the church.
I believe what we are seeing as the "church" as a whole is becoming less and less interested with volunteering to serve God. The bottom line is, we as a society are simply to busy, and involved with "our own things" to spend our precious time giving to such a worthy cause as VBS.
Well we really have a choice. To either volunteer to spread the message to a world crying to hear the Truth. Or, we simply disappear. We become extinct. We fail to pass on Truths that were entrusted to share with the next generation. Where would we be if no one volunteered to share Christ with us?
Let's take a look at some very important volunteers in history. How about names like. Matthew, Mark, John, Peter, Andrew, even the Apostle Paul. These men and countless others chose to lay aside their lives, to spread the message of Jesus Christ.
I hear comments all the time like, "well I would like to teach Sunday School, but I am really busy" "Well I would like to work at VBS but my kids have baseball games" " Well I would like to help on the youth outing, but I have to....." You get my point. Now sure we all have other activities going on in life, but what activities are truly important? 1 out of how many thousands become a pro baseball player? But 85% of those who are Christians became a Christian before they were 18 years old.
Action step for today, let's follow the greatest volunteer of all time. Jesus Christ gave His life, so we could have salvation from our sins, and the penalty that we deserved. Let's take a look at our busy schedules and reevaluate some priorities. What are we doing that will make an eternal impact, and what are we doing for immediate satisfaction. Thanks to hard working VBS team of volunteers, last night 2 new names were written on Heavens role call. What did you do last night?
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