Last weekend, some of the MOB went to Katoomba for two nights for the Katoomba Youth Convention (KYCK). We had 5 girls with 2 female leaders go and 2 guys with 5 male leaders. The 7 females that went have given a review of the weekend’s speakers & talks.
Please pray that all those that went, especially our younger sisters in Christ, won’t forget what they learnt but, rather, are spurred on to serve our wonderful Saviour King evermore because of the teachings they heard. (Please note that the Mobsters full names are not published for privacy reasons). 
Laura Mansell: Who were the speakers and what were their talks based on? What was your favourite thing about Kyck? There were two speakers over the weekend, Sam Chan and Malcolm Gill. Both very down to earth yet lively speakers who opened the word of God to us. The weekend was broken into 6 sessions, and the during those talks we looked at 6 key doctrines in the Bible. Trinity, Justification, Regeneration, Adoption, Sanctification and Glorification. The theme was “Here I stand”, so looking at our foundations, what we stand for and why.
NM: Trinity… Malcolm Gill was first up with the doctrine of trinity. The trinity is One true God made up the Father Spirit son, co-eternal and co-existant. It is 1 God, revealed to us in 3 Ways.
God is Glorious and loving. The Son lived to shine light on the father and each member of the Trinity delights in each other. They move in sync with each other, its like as if they were doing a dance.
When we understand the trinity, we learn more asbout who we should be and that He is God.
We need to recalculate ourselves to the reality that God is the only God and you are under his rule. We need to join in his dance.
Natalie Waghorn: Justification… Sam Chan spoke about why we need justification, who justifies, how we shouldn’t seek justification and how we should seek it.
Rules are always made for a reason, when they get broken (because they always do) people get hurt and teh person who makes those rules has every right to be angry. God has every right to punish us for breaking his rules but, because of his love for us, he gives us the opportunity to be justified…this doesn’t mean our rule breaking goes unnoticed or undealt with, it means that Jesus offered to swap places with us.
When we approach Jesus, because he’s the only way we can come into the presence of God of God, we should do it acknowledging our insignificance and minuteness and our sinfulness not talk ourselves up for all the “great” things we have done. ”For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” Luke 18:14.
We must cling to Jesus!
AM: Regeneration… Regeneration simply means being born anew, and in the talk by Malcolm Gill, we learnt about why we need to be regenerated, how it happens, and why it happens. We need to be regenerated because we weren’t created to live in a broken world; we’ve been degenerated by sin.
Regeneration is a result of God; no matter what we do, how hard we try, we can’t do it ourselves. By spending time in the word of God, we’re changed. We’re regenerated for the Glory of God; also for spiritual Growth, for “we were not birthed to remain as infants.”
Personally, I was challenged by this talk because it made me realize that nothing matters but God, that he doesn’t care how well I’m doing at school or what plans I have for my future, none of it effects the fact that I am a sinner and I can’t change that by myself. My favourite thing about Kyck 2012 was the “mandarin of truth” where we as The Mob shared with each other about what we thought was challenging or encouraging from the talks. It was so great to see the Mobsters really thinking over what we’d heard, and what that meant for them personally.
LT: Adoption… It was about the fact that we need a Dad and God is willing to adopt us as his child, him being our heavenly father. There were three main points presented: The first one was that God will be our father and we will be his children. He also talked about how the opposite to having a father was being afraid, and we should never be afraid of God. The second point was that God wants us to call him DAD, not to be just a father, but to be a DAD. The third point was that the spirit legally testifies that we are God’s children, and by being his children we are blessed with privileges. He also talked about the fact that we are heirs of God, co-heirs with christ.
I was challenged/encouraged about the fact that even thought we are a dot, on a dot, on a dot, on a grain of sand, on a 5 cent piece, in the middle of australia, God still loves us. The fact that he is so big and powerful, and he wants us to have such an intimate relationship, as to not only call him father, but to call him Dad.
NC: Sanctification… In this talk, Sam talked about how we need to be sanctified due to our human sinful nature. He used analogies such as a dogs nature is to wag its tail and a cats nature is to purr just like a humans nature is to sin. He told us that we are to put to death our sinful ways in a full hearted way and to give it everything we got.
Romans 8:1-13 was the passage he read from that said god puts his spirit in us (v 9) then throws out the bad stuff (jealousy/envy/malice, etc) and replaces with good stuff such as love/self-control/peace.
This was my favorite talk and it has encouraged me to put to death my bad ways and to live like Jesus did, to keep in a straight line on the path to god by reading the bible and praying and hearing the word from others.
KJ: Glorification… The glorification talk was about the fact that we live in a sin contaminated world and that us Christians should have a heart felt need for the redemption of creation. The reason that we are meant to get excited is that one day in the future we will be able to be with God and he will be walking and living among us. There will me no more crying, sin or pain. As Christians we should have a hope that our fading bodies will die, but we will be raised in an unperishable body. The glorious future is certain and secure because Jesus Christ was risen from the dead.
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All in all, it was a great weekend to get to know each other better, sink our teeth into God’s word and encourage each other on toward love & good deeds.
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