i love mbs

for the second post in a row i get to write about new thing at kettle: Bible study. the second installment of morning bible study was definetly another success. but the story since then starts yesterday. when ali and i, got to go make an announcement in front of chapel about morning bible study. the announcement wasnt the best speaking either of us have ever done, as we both heard from people, but we got the message out. so this morning, when i got to school at 6:50 (bs starts at 7:15) and started to prepare my devotion. with my trusty jawdroppers book in hand i looked through the list of stories and found one called welcome to pinkville. this story focuses on how peer pressure changes us and how it causes us to lose our focus. bassically a guy moves to a town where everyone only wears pink. in the end he starts wearing just pink to fit in and loses his dream job. as you prolly guessed the story is about peer pressure and how it can cause us to change. the book also included 2 bible references that applied with the story: the part of the bible where Jesus talks about us as salt and then hebrews 12:1-3 which states how we need to fix our eyes on Jesus and not on the things of this world. i was totally set.
eventually aaron and ali showed up with doughnuts drink and cups and we started to set up. more and more people started coming, beyond the usual camp crowd of aisbet, corrine, and sarah thurs as well as me aaron and ali but people i never would have expected. eventually we had 17 people there!!! fortunately we had enough supplies and even better, we had to combine 3 tables. the librarian mrs ehlke didnt even mind us having food in there. the best thing about it was that everyone who was there, wanted to be there and because of that people really focused on the devotion and the bible passages. and the discussion was definetly better than i expected. even though alot of people were shy to participate, they still listened intently. eventually we went beyond the topic of peer pressure and discussed why we get desensitized to the bible and how it can lose its effect. one thing that we really accomplished with the bible study was that we didnt really have any objectives. in alot of bible study materials they have a set conclusion your supposed to find at the end. we didnt have that it all, we just stayed focused on what people cared about and what the bible had to say about that and i think people got more out of the discussion that way. this bible study exceeded my expectations in every way i could have predicted.