A happy trip

kw: random comments, church conferences

Sunday evening my son and I got back from New York, where we'd attended a conference for church Young People. About 300 attended the whole three days, and another couple hundred came for a day here or there, mainly Sunday morning.

The subject was "The Lord's Coming," but the main thrust was getting ready not by becoming privately spiritual (what one might expect), but by caring for others, shepherding others, and being willing to receive care and shepherding. This is a good word for today's independent-minded teenagers.

One good item: If you don't want to fall in an open well, don't walk around it. Teens who say, "I know my limits," and "I can handle it" are always either lying or self-ignorant. If you stay too far from the well to see it, only then are you safe. This is how to treat sin and the world.

So, they've had some amount of vision on the mountaintop. We'll see how they work it out in the next few months, in their daily lives, before the longer Summer conferences in July and August.