Listooder Youth Fellowship

A familiar face joined us for the opening meeting of 2016. Danny Roberts, formerly a regular attender of the meetings, began with a personal example of the challenges he experienced as a young Christian growing up in Liverpool. Danny, under pressure to be popular, conformed to the ways of his unsaved friends and found himself regularly involved in sinful activities. Looking back, Danny asked the question: what sort of Christian example was he to his Christian friends - what sort of example was he to anyone? Often, when sitting in church services, it is easy to presume that those speaking to us from the pulpit have everything 'sorted' in their lives. We build them up as 'perfect' Christians, with a standard that we can never attain to. The reality, however, is that we all sin, falling short of God's standard on a daily basis. It is on occasions when we look at others around us that we often forget this fact. Hearing of sins, among the people of God, that we regard to be severe, we are very quick to judge, deci