Hello good friends,

Me and Wellsy have just returned from a skiing holiday which was so good! Nearly got a call up from the GB Olympic downhill skiing team!!! Nah – we were awful, got down the hill but with no style at all!

We return to welcome Rachel Young who has joined the youth team of Christians in Sport. She will be based out of the office, helping with the girls academy intake and helping to support youth leaders around the country support their young people. We are thrilled to have her on board!!

Now then – This is the last week of the Pray, Play, Say structure! Next week we move on you’ll be glad to know.

We’re looking at the book of Colossians. Paul writes to a group of Christians who are being tempted to follow new and exciting things and not make Jesus number one. We looked at how Paul told them that Jesus was absolutely everything – all they need.

We’re now in chapter 4 of Colossians following the strap-line of Christians in Sport to PRAY, PLAY,SAY.

We have already looked at Pray and Play, now let's focus upon Saying something of the good news of Jesus

Verse 6 – ‘Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone’

It’s that last bit that we are interested in today – ‘so that you may know how to answer everyone’.

Have you ever been tongue tied when somebody has asked you a question about God or Christianity? Ever told blatant lies? Ever told half truths? We refer to that moment in Christians in Sport as ‘squeak or speak’

Will you squeak – and shirk away from telling your friends about Jesus? or

Will you speak – and stand tall for the good news of Jesus?

You see the apostle Paul is saying – if you pray for lost friends (Pray), if you are wise in the way you act towards friends (Play) then your friends will ask you questions. You don’t have to be a raving Christians who stands on top of the medical table in the dressing room and starts preaching – you’d probably have no friends after that. Paul is saying ‘do your job, then friends will ask you questions’

Will you be ready to answer those questions???

Next week we’ll start a series on being ready to answer those questions!!!

I’m looking forward to it!


Until next week – ‘Be ready’


Ps – if you have any stories about the times you have been ready and been able to answer friends, please email them to youthsport@christiansinsport.org.uk!


The Youth Team

 

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