The answer
There are four main diversions through which we can lose the goal in our service:
1- Substitution, instead of serving the spiritual life of our young people, we fill them with knowledge about the Bible, history of the church, and so on, but knowledge without grace and life (which is Jesus Christ), is not sufficient for their salvation. They will end up being knowledgable about Christianity, but they will not have Christ inside of them. Christianity must be taught as life, and not just knowledge.
2- Social activities, your activities must be supporting your spiritual goal, and if this does not happen, your group will become like a closed circle, with Christ being on the outside. Our aim is to make these social activities around Christ, and in Christ; thus it must be spiritual activities from the kind that is “building”.
3- Moralities, it is pleasing when young people are being brought up with good morals, but if there is no spirituality, he will not have Christ inside of him. The two must be incorporated together, in order to reach the spiritual goal of salvation.
4- ’ivisions, whenever there are divisions in the church; blaming each other, condemning each other, speaking about each other, the goal will be lost, and the result will come to nought. Once we forget the Lord, and the salvation of our people, we start to struggle with each other, and lose sight of the goal. There is a saying that “whenever hatred enters through the window, the Lord will leave from the door”. Why? Because God is love.
H.G. Bishop Moussa