Resonate - Bibletime

"Sometimes we can get caught up in the fancy world of PR and message "tweaking."  We seek to take our goals, principles, mission/vision, messages, etc. and we try to roll them all into a name and tagline.  Maybe we spend weeks shaping and refining just the right language to make our message appealing enough to cause change.  The recent presidential debates and just that.  Real messages and goals get morphed into popularly appealing ear candy with no real substance at all.

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Today, for resonate, I want to take a step back and boil things down to the core.  Phillipians 2:3-4 gives a vision for what resonate is all about:

"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others."

Resonate is about removing self and elevating others. In simple terms, Paul shows us a path to Christianity that removes pride, preconceived notions, and judging that is often associated with Christianity, and puts humility first.  Christ would have us lay aside our own inhibitions and struggles, even our weaknesses, and seek to give a hand to those around us.  Resonate, and all college or young adult ministry is, at its simplest, about being the hands and feet of Christ.