consider yourselves challenged.

This week and at every camp I have seen with my very eyes the movement of God.

Two girls decided to trust in Jesus Christ last night. Not only did this huge thing happen here at camp; we also saw Christians from different walks with Christ become challenged by the story of God and by the gospel of Christ. I had a conversation with someone today who became a Christian just in the last year. Before he came over to Estonia to serve at this camp he was asked by someone, "Do you believe everything that the Bible says?" He answered honestly, "I do not know enough about the Bible yet to know if I believe it or not."

This morning he told me that after hearing the story of God and the bigger picture of creation all the way to the death and resurrection of Christ that he does believe in the Bible and he is interested in reading more about the stories that are in there.

You see, when you get the bigger picture of God's story you understand why certain things are the way that they are. Also when you understand things like, the Israelites for hundreds of years had to over and over again sacrifice a lamb for their sins but yet they still would not stay close to God, then they would have to continue sacrificing animals. God would forgive them when they made the sacrifice but they still continued to mess up over and over again. So when John the Baptist called Jesus the Lamb of God , he knew what he was talking about. No longer would humans have to make animal sacrifices to God, because Jesus came as the ultimate sacrifice. What would it be like if every time that you rebelled against God you had to go and find a lamb and sacrifice it for your sin and then the next day you made a sin again? You would have to wait until you got another lamb to get forgiveness from God.

Jesus makes so much more sense just knowing about the Israelite's sacrifices. You can begin to understand that by the Grace of God we are forgiven before we even sin and we do not have to kill animals and offer them to God.

I believe these students have a better understanding of why Jesus came and I also believe that these students may be able to better see that they are a part of the story and that God is the main character and as humans, we can be his supporting actors and actresses. God has been desiring to have a relationship with His humans since the days when He walked in the garden with Adam and Eve. I hope that by the life that Jesus lived here on earth people may return back to God's way of living. I hope that whether you are a Christian or you do not even know God that the Gospel of Jesus Christ will challenge you. No matter how young or old you are the Gospel should challenge you and change you. I hope that the Gospel will continue to challenge me and change me day after day. I also hope the same for you all. All things point to Jesus. All things.