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DREAM Malaysia: Young People want Real Stuff

Acts Church

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from acts church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your tea.

  3. I have seen that what young people really want is reality.

  4. They want real stuff. So why the churches were failing,

  5. many were failing with regards to youth ministry, was because

  6. we were not giving We were not giving our young

  7. people real stuff. We asked them to come to arrange chairs,

  8. white table, clean toilet. Right do we give our young

  9. people a chance to worship? Lead not only in a

  10. youth group, but at the main church? Do we give

  11. them a chance to pray for the sick at our altars?

  12. Do we give them a chance to preach? Why haven't

  13. we give them things that are real? What do I

  14. mean by real?

  15. Real means that the potential or failing is high, and

  16. the consequences of failing is also high.

  17. When you give a young person something simple to do

  18. so that they don't break things, so that they won't

  19. speak the wrong thing, you know, the potential is low,

  20. the potential for damage is low, and so when all

  21. these are low, it becomes quite unreal. Real is when

  22. you actually get to drive a car and you couldn't

  23. meet with an accident, You could die or kill somebody. Right.

  24. But you see, when the church doesn't give their young

  25. people real stuff to handle, you know, see my hands

  26. to handle all right, to really get their faith in action,

  27. to to really know that, wow, you know, my partial

  28. just handed me a real baby, not a toy, a

  29. real baby. If I drop this baby, this baby could

  30. break its neck and could die. Right. But you know,

  31. the older people should actually say, I try trust you

  32. with this baby. I trust you with this life. I

  33. trust you with this expensive equipment. You see one trying

  34. to say, you could break it, but I trust you.

  35. Otherwise we'll give them twy guns and blah blah blah. Right,

  36. So you know why they're going into more and more

  37. of the video games and all these things because the

  38. world knows they need they need the real stuff, and

  39. so the world spends billions to come out with video

  40. games that are looking so real it looks like they

  41. are life. You know, once upon a time, we were

  42. shooting I don't know what you call it, like those

  43. stuff that we were shooting in the video games on

  44. our spaces vaders, nothing, okay, nothing, but we were all

  45. so excited, you know, and the worst we get is

  46. that you're out of bullets, you know, something like that, Okay, uh.

  47. And we were okay with that, all right, but after

  48. a while, you know, the enemy came in, uh into

  49. this game, and it was no longer exciting, you see.

  50. And uh and the church, instead of doing things with

  51. young people that were radical and real and dangerous and risky,

  52. right sending out them out to missions, the church became

  53. very safe. I don't even know. I'm pretty something just

  54. took over me, I'm telling you right now. So the

  55. church became safe, safe, safe, the young people won't be

  56. able to hurt themselves and won't be able to hurt others.

  57. But what we didn't realize is we took away something

  58. very important from young people, okay. Uh and and and

  59. so what happened was the world came in, right, the

  60. devil came in and said, we're going to make things

  61. very real for them. And so it went from spacing

  62. raiders right to I think now you say, they say

  63. all stuff flower, okay, anyone, counter Striker, all stuff right,

  64. because but because those really look like video games, counter

  65. Strike daughta but they moved on to like, no, they

  66. need to feed the want or the desire in every

  67. young person's life. For something real, and so they spend millions,

  68. if not billions of dollars causing the images and the imagery,

  69. and it almost looks like that person can come out

  70. of that screen sooner or later. Even that reality, how

  71. real it is in video games, will not be real enough.

  72. And now you just stirred up something in their hearts.

  73. It's like pornography or so after a while, when it's

  74. so real right in the in the porn movies, now

  75. you go like, okay, now I really want the real thing,

  76. And so people will go out for the real thing

  77. thinking that it's right. Even though we want the reality,

  78. we've lost all sense of reality. Do you understand this

  79. is important? Uh? The church really does have answers. The

  80. church really does have solutions, The church really does have

  81. wished them. The church real really does have God's word

  82. that even though some people call it it's all old fashioned,

  83. the word of God, it's old fashioned law. They say

  84. it's old fashioned, it's not relevant anymore. It's so relevant.

  85. In fact, it's getting more and more relevant in our

  86. day in time. It's just that we're not making the connection.

  87. You've got to make the connection with God's everlasting truth,

  88. right with the current society that we have today. Our

  89. passion is about nation building. What good is having a

  90. church on the penthouse? All right? Growing and growing with

  91. money that you never thought you will ever have. Your

  92. bank account is so big now, what is the use

  93. if you're not changing your country?

  94. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

  95. information on our church, please visit as church org. We

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  97. this week is going to be a good week. I

  98. hit for you. God bless