Youth Ministries Summer on God’s Acre
Although our traditional youth group programming pauses for summer break, we wanted to offer some fun opportunities for our kids.
You wicked slave!…Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you? Matthew 18:32b–33
Jesus told a story about a man who had a large debt forgiven by his master, only to ruthlessly demand the payment of a much smaller debt owed to him by another servant. This is hypocrisy at its most virulent. When someone has been forgiven an immense debt, how can they justify their own unwillingness to return that same grace and mercy to others?
Jesus told this story so that we might understand the appropriate…