Witnesses of Our Message – Audio
Witnesses of Our Message
Witnessing and Undershepherding New Life Island (Upper Black Eddy, PA) Mercado, Dean 08/18/2024
Before the teaching, Eliana Rosa performed her song, “Speak”, and Shannan Solazzo, Hannah Sarnak, and Dylan Dearman performed the song “Railway Cars”.
The teacher begins by reading the letter that was sent out to announce the camp. Then, he recaps the other teachings from throughout the weekend. We aren’t just messengers since we partake in the message that we hold forth. We are reminded that speaking in tongues is a great witness and that God works in you.
Ambassadors – Audio
Ambassadors
Integrity of the Word Sonship Rights New Life Island (Upper Black Eddy, PA) Mercado, Dean 08/15/2024
In this teaching to open the 2024 Youth Advance, we are given the goal of seeing ourselves how God sees us. The integrity of the Word of God is emphasized. We should believe what God says about Himself as well as about us. The teacher introduces the weekend’s theme verse, 2 Corinthians 5:20, and the verses around it. Then, he goes in depth on what an ambassador is and how our ambassadorship for Christ compares to ambassadorship in the world. There is nothing higher than being a son of God.
We Are Witnesses – Audio
We Are Witnesses
The Great Mystery The New Birth Witnessing and Undershepherding Spruce Lake Retreat Center (Canadensis, PA) Mercado, Dean 07/05/2024
The Friday morning fellowship began with singing and prayer, building up to a ministering service in which believers who wanted to be prayed for were ministered to by others.
The teaching highlighted God’s will that all people be saved and come unto a knowledge of the truth, that this is his heart for everyone. It then traced how God provided for the first part of that will by raising Jesus Christ from the dead and making available the gift of the holy spirit in the new birth. The second part of His will requires that we witness to the truth of the resurrection by our words and by our operation of the power we’ve been given. The good news we announce to others is of the more than abundant life available now, as well as the hope of the eternal life that we will have in the future, and the Mystery is held up as the answer to all the division in the world. Paul’s speech before the Roman governor Festus and King Agrippa in Acts 26 is used to show all of these principles in operation.
