"... when churches focus on keeping young people active for Jesus, we may forget to teach them how to be present with Jesus." Kenda Creasy Dean, youth pastor, university professor, Presbyterian.
It is possible to become so busy for the church or even "for Jesus" that one becomes fixated on the business of being busy. The activity can become an idol, distracting us from God. We cannot earn God's favor, it is a freely given gift. The activities are not wrong, and may even be productive, but more pleasing to God is obedience and what the simple Brother Lawrence called "the practice of the presence of God."
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