Rubbish in, Rubbish out

So this week has been quite chilled, thank you everyone for your prayers that have helped me so much! so this week was hub week (kind of) so we met up together just as a hub luckily my hub is very big so felt as if it was just the whole pais gb!! there was 22 of us this week at life church all going through a few sessions with paul gibbs (founder of Pais) then there was alot of time for us to work in our own teams planning assemblies/lunch clubs in teams then presenting them to other teams so we could have feedback on it and things like this. So out topic this week was 'living life to the full/living a full life) so me and the Burnley team spent a few hours one day and the next day preparing a lunch time club for secondary school aged school children, then presented it to some of the other teams!  was really fun and a really good way to see what kind of things were good at and what things we need to improve on as a team, but over all my team is AWESOME.

     So why is this Blog called Rubbish in Rubbish out? well during out first week of FT (foundational training) pete baker (national director or Pais) took a session on this, and when he first did it, it didn't hit me to much, but reading back over my notes that i made it has hit me! i have always chosen to be a happy and friendly person, i always want to be nice to everyone, say the right things, and be good in all i do! but i always found that i would casually lie about things (not meaning to but it would just come out of my mouth) or i would casually take things because i needed them so basically stealing, and it would only be little things, but i would still do it! so i prayed to God about it asking 'why do i do this, i dont want to do this but i do, please help me' so this was months ago, and yet i continued, then i heard pete do this talk. he used Romans 7v 15-22 and if you just read that it is and amazing Verse! it kind of says in it 'we dont control sin, sin controls us' but thats not saying we cant stop sin, but is saying when we think we can over come sin on our own really were not doing anything, sin is still there! so i was still confused once i heard this, i still didn't get what i could do to help me then in 2verses i knew exactly what i had to do 'Mathew 12v35 and Corinthians 15v33' and in the words pete put it ' goodness in, goodness out.... Evil in, Evil out.... Rubbish in, Rubbish out' so who we are with who we hang round with, what we watch, what we read, what we do, what we drink, what we talk about, how we act, how we dress, how we treat people, how we look at people, what films we watch, what games we play... all of these effect what person we are....so for example if  i watch 18+ films watch 18+ movies talk about 18+ things drank 18+ things smoked/took 18+drugs then what will come out of me!.. but if i.. love people, are nice to people, watch things that are good for me, drink things sensibly, talk about good things, dress properly.. then what will come out of me? do i realised.. i can want my life to be something (godly) but if the way i act and things i do arnt Godly then how can i ever become Godly! i need to think about the things i do and then when i sort out the bad things i do, and the bad things i say then maybe i will stop doing the things i dont want to do and will actually live a good life!
        Ive come to the realisation that i am easily influenced, so who am i influenced by? surely if i hang around God all day every day then he will influence me... but in a good way.. that is my aim for this year..


this week is my week of just me and Burnley.. we go into schools on tuesday wednesday and thursday doing lunch time clubs for each, so prayer points this week will be

- that me and my team will be able to reach out to young people in the school we go to, that young people will Engage  well with what we are doing, and will really get something out of the time we have with them
- continual prayer for me this week as i try and head up the youth program in my church, we had out first youth club on Friday in which 6 girls came to it, one 16 one 15, two 13 one 11 and one 8!!!  so just prayer that as i try and encourage more people to come along that God will really bless anyone that does come


Luke