The Weekly Link

Our week started off bright and early Monday morning with a walk by the lake over to K-1. There we were encouraged to reflect on how we spend our free time, and how that affects our walk with the Lord. We all scattered throughout the lower fields of K-1, K-Kountry, and K-Kaua’I to spend time in the Bible, journal, and reflect.

     Our speaker missed his flight first thing Tuesday morning, so our director, Adam Donyes filled us with his words of wisdom while we awaited the arrival of our guest speaker. Adam talked about relationships, entitlement, transformation, self-control/ sanctification, and maximizing moments. One thing Adam said that really struck a chord with me was “the only thing worse than our sin is justifying it.” This is so true. I know I personally justify things all the time but I have never really realized it until he pointed this out. He also talked about how we are called to maximize our moments. Ephesians 5:15-17 says, “look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.  Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.” Our society is constantly on the go but these verses are a great reminder of how God calls us to be wise and make the most of our moments.

     When our speaker, Jonathan Morrow, arrived he began to blow us all away with his vast knowledge of how to defend the Christian faith. He pointed out that the Bible says more about knowledge than it does faith, and that faith acts on knowledge; it’s not a substitute for knowledge. He made two points that I really liked. The first one being that every beginning requires a beginner, and the second one being that every design must have a designer. I really liked these because we had to have a beginner, something can’t come from nothing therefore we had to have a beginner/creator. We are all so intricately designed; therefore we must have a designer. In his final session Mr. Morrow left us with advice on how to flourish in college and life. He encouraged us to find mentors, peers, have a Christian worldview, and to have a vision for our life. Proverbs 13:20 supports these four things by saying, “whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.“  Overall this was a busy week filled with tons of detailed arguments on how to defend our faith.