Spiritual Emphasis Week

This week Andy Braner came to school to be our speaker in chapel for the week. He's pretty good. He keeps it interesting and says some really cool stuff! On Monday he basically just introduced his family and what he does. It's cool how he has his own camp called Camp Kivu and has adopted two kids. On Tuesday his main focus was BELIEVE?  He was challenging us with what we believe and how we can stand firm in what we believe. He talked about the two kinds of truth, Subjective Truth and Objective Truth. Subjective Truth is what we decide for ourselves that we believe is true like he used the example of ice cream. Everyone thinks their favorite kind is the best, so therefore everyone's personal truth varies.  Objective truth is what we know is true or not. Like we know that if you eat alot of ice cream then you're not going to lose weight, you are most likely gonna gain some. How can we prove that Christianity is 100% true? He said that we can't and that it is impossible to totally prove the bible is true is true there is proof, but you can't totally convince someone on the facts part of it just has to be faith. He explained that the basic foundation of our whole religion of Christianity is based on Genesis 1:1. If God didn't create the world then God couldn't have created Adam and Eve, then there wouldn't have been The Fall, then Jesus wouldn't have had to come and so on. Which was really interesting to me because i'd never heard that before. One Wednesday his main focus was BEHAVE? Ideas have consequences. He emphasized that what you put in is what you get out and gave up 5 points to write down he said:
1. You are what you eat
           -What you put in your body is what your body becomes
           -Same is true for your spiritual life
2. Junk food changes your physical shape just like thoughts change your behavior
           -What you spend your time thinking about is what you become
3. Junk food causes heart problems and confuses your body's natural function, just like unhealthy spiritual things can confuse your spiritual life
           -What you put in is what you get out
4. Junk food tastes great in the short term, but in the long term leads to adverse side effects
           -Watch what you put in your head
5. An apple a day keeps the doctor away
           -Put good spiritual things in your body at least once everyday

On thursday he talked about how the media affects our dating like how Facebook has given us the dating "status" and commercials use sexual ploys to get teenagers to use their products. He told us how music reflects some dating patterns he used Bruno Mars song Just the way you are to show a good relationship then went on to see how it can turn bad with Katy Perry's teenage dream. He showed how relationships can get obsessive with Rihanna's song Rehab and then showed us the extreme of people hating each other but not being able to force themselves to leave each other with Eminem's love the way you lie. Which I thought was a very good and interesting way to illustrate that subject. He showed us that what we put in our body, what kind of music we listen to, will ultimately start having effects on our lives.
Friday he wrapped everything up with BELONG? We want to be with other people. Three things we need to keep in mind as teenagers in this world is
1. We gotta know what we believe
2. We gotta know how to act in the world
3. We gotta know how to relate to people

Over all, I really really enjoyed have Andy come and talk to us.