We Should No Longer Be Slaves To Sin

I know it's Wednesday, but I really wanted to talk about youth group that we had this week. I thought that by far it was the most uplifting session we have had so far. It was so cool..... We read from Ephesians 4 and 5 (if I remember correctly). Then we discussed what we as a group could do to improve. After we discussed that for a while, we all prayed about a sin that we have been struggling with. When we finished praying we all got a piece of paper and wrote our sin on it.

While we were having worship we all took turns nailing our piece of paper to a wooded cross. After singing a few songs, we all knelt while our leaders took the sins off the cross and read them out loud. Then some people prayed. It was so cool to sit and listen to kids pray while we were all kneeling on the floor to God. After we finished praying, we went outside and burned our pieces of paper with our sins written on them. We finished the night with a nice meal :).

It overall was quite a moving experience :D. I especially liked the part where we burned the "sins". It was a great reminder that Jesus already paid for all our sins, and that we no longer are slaves to sin. I think that a good way to end this post is with Romans 6:6

Romans 6:6
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—

Mallory