This week we launched our HoneyRock winter adventure trips with a ski trip to Alpine Valley, WI. We will be taking students on weekly ski adventures throughout the upcoming semester where they can learn alpine and telemark skiing as well as snowboarding. Honey Rock provides instruction and a great excuse to get off campus and have some much needed fun and fellowship in the outdoors. The ski season ends with our epic trip to Winter Park for five days of skiing instruction, fun and focus on growing in our walks with Christ.
So much or our lives are driven towards a dichotomy of the spiritual and “real life.” I am passionate about students experiencing and making the kingdom a reality in everyday experience. Jesus is in the driver’s seat of our lives from the mundane to epic adventures we find ourselves in as we follow Him. In Mark Chapter 8 Jesus tells his disciples "Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat; I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? What could you ever trade your soul for?” (Mark 8:34-37 , The Message paraphrase)
We have had amazing opportunities on these trips to grow in our faith and trust in God as we serve one another. We have also watched as Jesus has led many of us into incredible conversations and actions of love where we are able to love those who do not yet know him. So at the end of the day it is not simply becoming great at skiing, mountain biking, kayaking, backpacking or whatever the adventure entails but something much more, involving learning to listen to Jesus and serving those around us as we follow Him. That is the greatest adventure of a lifetime.
