While I was the youth camp pastor at our camp this year, we encountered spiritual warfare. Then, when I came home, I read this article in USAToday. It seems the enemy (AKA Satan and his cohorts) also knows about the value of camp. There is something unique about gathering a bunch of kids together in an environment that is steeped in what you are trying to teach. Now, I could get very analytical and say that we are both trying to accomplish the same thing for a different cause, but I don't think that is true.
What we try to accomplish at our Christian camp is to bring kids into a life-changing relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. This other camp is just trying to re-enforce what the parents already believe. It is actually just a cheap (although not financially cheap, I am sure) knock-off of the genuine thing. It is Satan up to his old tricks. The same old bag of junk he has been using for thousands of years. Take what is good and pure and counterfeit it with a dark, twisted meaning. Make no mistake, whenever God begins to move in such a way that lives are transformed, Satan and his minions will copy and corrupt the very human vehicle that God is using. In this case, Bible camp is replaced by a secular-humanist (or naturalist) camp. It is not cool. It is not unique. It is the fool's gold of camp. It may seem to be a good thing, but upon deeper examination, you realize its just a hunk of junk. Not worth your time, attention, or money.
Pray for Bible camps that are going on even as you are reading this entry that God would be glorified. Also, pray for our VBS that begins next week that kids would come to know Christ either for the first time, or in a new and life-changing way.
See you at camp.........
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