John 20:30-31—Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

Youth: register here

Parents/Youth-Leaders: see this note also

Anyone: tune in for the live-stream video on youtube tonight @ 7:30pm

Schedule: Saturdays @ 7 Pm

• 4/18/20— John 20:30-31
  • The Signs of Life

• 4/25/20— Sign #1: John 2
  • The Changing of Water to Wine

• 5/2/20— Sign #2: John 4
  • The Healing of the Nobleman’s Son

• 5/9/20— Sign #3: John 5
  • The Healing of the Paralytic Man

• 5/16/20— Sign #4: John 6
  • The Feeding of Five Thousand

• 5/23/20— CBM youth conference is happening with Queens youth group.
  • More information here: cbmyouth.org/ywc
  • Rescheduling Richmond youth crew to the following week

• 5/30/20— Sign #5: John 9
  • The Healing of the Blind Man

• 6/6/20— Sign #6: John 11
  • The Raising of Lazarus from the Dead

• 6/13/20— Sign #7: John 20
  • The Resurrection of the Lord Jesus

• 6/20/20— Sign #8 John 21
  • The Catching of Fish

When John the Baptist was in prison, “quarantined” from the rest of the Christians, everything he’d spent his life sharing began to get a little fuzzy. Even though he’d spent his life pointing others to Jesus, now, locked up and alone, John began to question everything. He sent his disciples to ask Jesus, “Are you really the Christ?”

As Christians, we are created to need each other. Throughout the new testament, Paul frequently calls believers to “encourage and build up one another.” Peter encourages the new believers to “remind each other of these things,” and the writer of Hebrews tells the saints, “not to forsake meeting together.” As Paul mentions at the beginning of Romans, we are often “strengthened by the faith which is in the other.” That is the way God has designed it to be. Even the strongest of us, like John the Baptist, can grow weary and begin to doubt without fellowship.

When the disciples came to Jesus and bring John’s question, Jesus sent back a word to his cousin: “Tell John what you see and hear … the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are healed, the dead are raised … blessed is he who is not offended at Me.”

What did Jesus do? He reminded John of who He was. He told the disciples to report what they had “seen and heard.”—the signs of life that Jesus was performing everywhere. To John, it looked like death was prevailing, but actually, all around, Jesus was at work, performing these signs of life (miracles), breathing life into death, shining light into the darkness, and proclaiming good news in a hopeless world. And He reminded John, “blessed is he who is not offended at Me.” We don’t know how long we will be in this situation, or how it will end. But blessed are those who can go through these difficult situations and not be offended at the Lord.

With the burden to encourage one another, and to share the message of hope with our friends, we are planning to spend the next 9 Saturday nights together looking into the signs of eternal life from the Gospel of John. Any youth or groups of youth are invited to join us at 7 pm (registration link here).

The time will include online ice breakers together, a 20-30 minute message, followed by breakout/discussion groups (with your own local group if leaders are able). 

We hope you can join!

Geoffrey & Katherine Pittman

(for the Richmond youth crew)

“encourage and build one another up, just as you also are doing.”

The messages will also be live-streamed on Youtube on CTM’s channel. 

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