The faith of a child…
Grace Point just concluded an amazing week of Vacation Bible School (VBS) on steroids, called Adventure Point Day Camp. VBS is one of those tools that 
when done well it has worked to help in a childs spiritual formation for many generations. Two-thirds of U.S. churches host VBS with 38 million children partciplating every year((Leadership Journal, Summer 2005, 11)). Grace Point’s VBS rocks and it rocks in large part because of the amazing volunteer base of our church. We have members who invest their vacations, spending multiple weeks prior to the camp to bring it together, and working all day in the HOT sun for 8-9 hours each day. Thousands of man hours are put into this week…why??? Nobody would devote such time and energy were it not an issue of life and death.
The reality is…it is a matter of life and death. It is a matter of heaven or hell; a life with God or without God. The absolute reason over 150 volunteers would do this is because they want every child to know and experience the love of Jesus up close and personal.
Every person on earth must come face to face and heart to heart with the realization of three things…
- They are a sinner in need of a savior (Rom 10:10; 3:23; Is 59:2)
- They can be saved (John 1:12; 1 Pet 3:18)
- How to be saved: How? Repent of our offensive action and attitudes(Acts 3:19; 26:20), Place our faith in Jesus (Act 4:12), and let Jesus call the shots in our life (Matt 7:21).
Sound too formulamatic? Sound too much like you are losing control of your life? It’s not a formula, it’s a relationship. It’s not about our control, it’s about allowing the God of the universe to have His rightful place in our life and living His destiny for our life.
Besides teaching the kids how to ski, martial arts, rug making, archery, canoe, etc. 
and other such daily adventures. The real adventure is teaching the kids how to go the way of Jesus. One father looked back over his life as a parent with regret. His children had grown older and had never developed a walk with God. He summarized his parenting like this: “I spent too much time teaching my children how to walk instead of teaching them where to walk.” Let’s teach our children by our life and words where to walk not just how to walk.
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Great post!
It was truly a blessing to see all of the little ones and the volunteers during the service on Sunday. I can’t wait until Jackson is big enough to start understanding what God is all about. I hope that I am a good example for him and teach him where to walk instead of just how to walk.