Week 2 consisted of bringing “Godly Back.” As in bringing God into a relationship. As with every message in this series, I am telling my students that these are intended for their future. At this age, they just don’t need to be in a relationship. But let’s face it, they aren’t going to listen to me on that one. So hopefully they will listen to me on this one.

If you want to bring Godly back in a relationship:
- Become who you want to marry.
- Talk about God.
- Your relationship should bring you closer to God
- Always keep in mind. Dating is a process for marriage.
- Ask yourself, “Does my relationship glorify God?”

Here’s the video we created. It’s set to Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back.”

I promised that I would post the video that we shot for week 1 of our Flee series. Our message centered around 4 reasons you should “flee” a relationship.  They were:

1. If mama ain’t happy.
2. Friends don’t let friends date losers.
3. If there’s disrespect you must reject.
4. Don’t flirt to convert.

Week 2 is about “Incorporating God into your relationship” and the song we remixed is “Sexy Back.”  I promise that it makes sense. Enjoy.

As most of you know, I am now a student pastor at LifePoint Church.  I get to walk beside middle school kids as they enter the most awkward, trying, and clueless time of their life.  Believe it or not, it’s a lot of fun.  The first thing most people say when I tell them what I do is, “Ewww…middle schoolers.”  It’s like this age group has a disease that you can catch and most people want to stay as far away as possible. Well, I guess I got the disease because I can’t wait to see my students on Wed night.

I love hearing that they are mad at their boyfriend because their square dancing partner in gym class is a girl that is pretty.  I just wish that was the extent of the issues that they are dealing with.  They run much deeper than you can imagine. There is a LOT of pain and hurting.  I now respond to the question of “Why middle school?” with “Everyone Needs Healing.”

Anyway, that 150 word introduction has now lead me to the point of this post. Tonight we start our moral boundaries series.  The big series of the year!  The one that causes parents to cringe and small group leaders to suddenly get sick. This year we called it “fLee”.  An obvious rip from one of my favorite shows, “Glee.” It’s not a series to slam the show, although that would be pretty easy, it’s a creative decision.

We filmed 4 glee-style music videos a while back. Complete with rewording the songs and recording audio tracks. It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun and the students are really excited to see what we came up with.

Week 1 is “Shady” set to the song “Baby.” We are talking about the type of person you date and give them 5 signs that they should flee a relationship. I will post the video and update of the specific message points this weekend.

Here are the lyrics:

I am pumped.  I am actually more excited than the kids are. AcroDunk from “America’s Got Talent” is coming to Rush Hour. What is Rush Hour?  It’s our outreach event that we do twice a year.  Once in February and once in September. My first day on the job in September was “Rush Hour” and it was crazy. So, this event was my first Rush Hour to plan from beginning to end and somehow we pulled off convincing AcroDunk to come visit.

The most important part of Rush Hour though is the opportunity to share the Gospel. That’s why we have the event. That reality hit me pretty hard last night. I have been thinking for a few weeks now on how I was going to share the Gospel and last night I got scared.

“Eternity is at stake here Wes. Don’t screw this up.”
“You aren’t qualified to speak on that. Think about where you were 3 years ago!”

A nice little wave of panic came over me.

I did begin to think about where I was 3 years ago and something I know and have known for a long time came to me- I’m not in control. When you follow Christ, you relinquish control. There is no way I could have scripted out the last 3 years of my life.  If you have ever read the Bible, you know that God has made it a habit of using unqualified people. I may be unqualified, but I am willing.

A peace then came over me. As I begin to write what I will share with the students tomorrow night, I know that God has already been working in the hearts of the kids that will be there. He is busy drawing their hearts to Him. I am nothing but an instrument and that is comforting to me.

Thank you Lord for using the unqualified.

Will you join me in praying for Rush Hour?