reconciliation

As you may remember from yesterday, I want to look at four elements of salvation for us as youth workers this week, and what they might mean for our work. Yesterday I looked at propitiation, the wrath of God, and what it takes for us to help young people realise that the wrtath of God has been turned away from them and us, and what we might need to do to demonstrate some of that. toiday, I want to quickly look at reconciliation, and a couple fo the different elements of reconciliation. 1: reconciliation in relationships: sometimes we need to demonstrate that relationships can be reconciled no matter what has taken place. We can show this, by our relaitonships with the young people we work with, as they will frustrate and annoy us, but yet we continue to be there for them, so by showin this, we demonstrate how relaitonships can be reconciled. 2: reconciled to themselves: Many young people will have a bad self image, some of this will come from media, some from friends, and some from otehr places, and it is our job to hlep them realise that they are created in the image of God, and therefore they are lovely, great worthy, and worth dieing for. to reconcile them to themselves is a tough one, and a long job, but it is possible to reconcile us to ourselves. 3: Reconcile us to God: Help the young people we work with reconcile themselves to God, god has done so much for them and for us, and we need to help the young people we work with that they dont' have to do things, but God loves, them and that is why Jesus died for them, because God loved them. So reconciliation takes three main elements, and I haven't done them justice here, but all three of these elements are worth looking at with our young people.