What Goes Around

Have you ever heard that something bad happened to someone else and found you were excited about it? I mean, you knew this person deserved the very worst. You felt like the universe owed them horrible, nasty things. There’s a word for that—it’s called karma. Karma is the idea that what goes around comes around. This philosophy states that when a person does good things, good things will happen to them, and when a person does bad things, well, you get the idea. As Christians, we are called to live by another standard—grace. Over the next three weeks we will be talking with students about what it means to really live by grace.

Feb. 3

The first week of this series we are going to talk about the concept of karma as one of our culture’s most popular ways to view life. The idea of karma has been slowly infiltrating our culture through music and popular TV shows. But karma is not what Christianity is about. We will introduce the idea of grace as the alternative to karma by explaining that grace means getting what we don’t deserve, and not getting what we do deserve. Students will be challenged to decide for themselves what they think about these two conflicting ideas.

Feb. 10

We all know there is a big difference between saying you believe something and really experiencing it for yourself. That’s why the second week of this series will focus on experiencing grace on a daily basis. Students will be challenged to recognize their many blessings not as rewards they deserve because of something that have done, but as reminders that God has been gracious to them. Students will hear that God is always gracious and quick to forgive, and they’ll be reminded that nothing they have done or ever could do would separate them from His grace.

Feb 17

The result of God’s unending grace toward us is that we are called to extend the same grace to each other. What a challenge! This week students will begin to think of some practical ways they can begin living out grace toward others.

About

Impact offers a diverse blend of activities, a meaningful worship experience and small group discussions. It is through these components of our time together that students are able to connect with each other and with Jesus Christ. As we continue to reach out to the students of Central New Hampshire we desire to be creating environments where youth feel welcome and are valued.

Impact Community meets every Wednesday evening at 6:30pm at the Pembroke campus of Grace Capital Church. We aim to encourage and equip our students to grow in their faith. We also seek to create an environment that is welcoming to all students-regardless of where they are in their spiritual journey. We use a wide range of creative expressions to communicate spiritual truth. Our gatherings regularly include compelling music, video, visual arts, relevant Bible teaching and small group discussions that lead to the application of the messages to our daily lives.