Stamped: March 18th, 2009

“This weekend at Impact Weekend I learned a lot more about God. I learned that the most important thing to God is his glory and God puts his glory on display (Psalm 19). God used his glory to build the church we are in now. God’s glory will fill the earth for eternity. Even after we are saved we will still reject God’s glory. The greatest thing we can do is to live for the glory of God. It is great to have an awesome savior like our God that can fix what we mess up.

In the sermon about his glorious grace, I learned about how we need to do everything in his praise. God has given us every spiritual blessing in heaven. In 1 Timothy 1:12-14 it tells us that we need to thank Jesus Christ because he trust us and gave us a chance to serve him and he gives us strength. I learned that we all spoke against Christ and did all kinds of things to hurt him. God showed us mercy because we did not know what we were doing. We did these things when we did not believe. The last thing is that the grace of our Lord was fully given to us and with that grace came the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.”

Brandon Hill

“This past weekend has been a great experience for me as I went to Virginia for Impact Weekend. I learned that one day Jesus Christ will come back and everyone that rejected him will be rejected by God and they will tremble in terror. I also learned that we think that we just barely miss the mark when it comes to the glory of Jesus Christ but that is way wrong. I only deserve eternal death in hell and it was because of Jesus that I am not cursed by my sins because He died on the cross for me and for you and it is written that whoever dies upon a cross is cursed. God didn’t do it for the half-hearted people that get bored in church and don’t truly praise Him. He did it for the people who are always in Him and are overwhelmed by His grace. Jesus Christ found that His greatest joy was living for the glory of God and those who find joy in living for the glory of God and humbling themselves will be exalted and if you expect to rise, then pursue with all your might. I also learned that if anyone rejects Him, then we will bow in fear of rejection from Him.”

Todd Hill

“During the last few days, I have really seen and heard many things that have changed my view on almost everything I do. Before I went on this trip, I didn’t even think of relationship with Christ the same as I do now. I wasn’t even very excited to go on the trip. I didn’t see it as really a big deal, but as something that my parents thought was best for me. As the weekend progressed, the people I was around influenced the way I viewed my personal relationship with the Lord. Even all of the new people from Virginia that I met directly impacted my life this weekend. I learned quite a lot during these few short days. One thing I learned that I thought to be very significant was that a church membership is a commitment. A commitment to all of those around you in the church. I never really thought of my membership at Lake Bowen Baptist to really mean much because of the fact I’m only a kid, but after hearing what Eddie Strickland had to say about this subject, I began to rethink how I view most people around me. Pastor Eddie told of how unity is a major point in a church membership. He told us how we shouldn’t get discontent with ourselves, because discontentment leads to many problems, such as division and dividing of the church. I could write pages of the things I learned and I wish everyone in our church could say the same. I thank God for giving me the opportunity to go on this trip, and my parents for forcing me. Every song, session, and sermon that I sat through this weekend had a huge impact on my entire life. Anyone who wasn’t able to go on this trip missed out on a great chance to hear the amazing work of God.”

Zac Cassidy