WHO AM I - Identity Crisis of Youth Today! - Are We Really Free - June 26 2023

Welcome to the WHO AM I - Identity Crisis of youth today!

Blog couple of years - comments, article, idea - read change of our youth today! Maybe some that happen in our interaction with a youth somewhere in our journey

Yes, this is Devon Harris - director/CEO of Full Circle Refuge -Juvenile Justice Ministry that seeks to "See Jesus transforms the lives of juvenile offenders and at-risk youth.....PERIOD! That has been serving the SE US for almost 30 years now.

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Galatians 5:1

 

The book of Galatians addresses one of the toughest issues the early communities of believers in Jesus faced: how to understand and relate to the requirements of Mosaic law, especially for gentile believers. Should gentile believers be required to be circumcised and to follow other aspects of Mosaic law? Some were teaching this very thing. Paul’s encounter with the risen Jesus, however, convinced him that the law should be interpreted differently—as leading to and finding fulfillment in Christ (Galatians 2:19–21). To require believers to follow the law when Christ had already made them right with God and won their freedom (5:1, 4–6) would be “a different gospel . . . no gospel at all” (1:6–7).

 

 

At least 1 juvenile killed and 9 others injured in an overnight shooting in St. Louis

 

Public safety incident - United States - 2 killed in shooting at Beyond Wonderland festival in Washington state

 

 

Public safety incident - United States - 8 injured, including teens, in shooting in Los Angeles County neighborhood, authorities say

 

Public safety incident - United States - At least 15 people shot at street takeover in Willowbrook, Illinois

 

Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador’s crackdown on gangs

 

Are we really free?

 

Christ has freed us so that we may enjoy the benefits of freedom. Therefore, be firm ⌞in this freedom⌟, and don’t become slaves again. You were indeed called to be free, brothers and sisters. Don’t turn this freedom into an excuse for your corrupt nature to express itself. Rather, serve each other through love. All of Moses’ Teachings are summarized in a single statement, “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” But if you criticize and attack each other, be careful that you don’t destroy each other. Let me explain further. Live your life as your spiritual nature directs you. Then you will never follow through on what your corrupt nature wants. What your corrupt nature wants is contrary to what your spiritual nature wants, and what your spiritual nature wants is contrary to what your corrupt nature wants. They are opposed to each other. As a result, you don’t always do what you intend to do. If your spiritual nature is your guide, you are not subject to Moses’ laws.

Galatians 5:1‭, ‬13‭-‬18 GW

https://bible.com/bible/70/gal.5.1-18.GW

 

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NOW. GO SERVE YOUR KING JESUS! I'm OUT