A New year with no strings attached
Brad M. Griffin | Jan 3, 2014
Often it feels like we have to earn every gift.
As if they all come with strings attached.
That may be the way life seems to operate, the way our relationships play out, and even the way ministry feels sometimes. Perhaps much of the time.
But as we head into 2014, our prayer for you and for the young people you love is that you—and all of us—will experience the freedom of grace this year. The freedom of giving and receiving with no strings attached.
Last year we shared the above video as part of our free 8-week Sticky Faith Every Day curriculum. This new year we’re hoping you’ll take the opportunity to download it again if you didn’t get the opportunity the first time.
More than that, we hope we can keep dreaming together about what it might look like to live out God’s imagination of a new Kingdom. A Kingdom with no strings attached.
Grace to you this year.
Brad M. Griffin is the Senior Director of Content for the Fuller Youth Institute, where he develops research-based training for youth workers and parents. A speaker, writer, and volunteer youth pastor, Brad is the coauthor of over a dozen books, including 3 Big Questions That Change Every Teenager, Faith in an Anxious World, Growing Young, several Sticky Faith books, Every Parent’s Guide to Navigating Our Digital World, and Can I Ask That? Brad and his family live in Southern California, where he serves as Pastor of Youth and Family Ministries at Mountainside Communion.
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