Coming up with a name for our youth ministry was work. The name had to have meaning beyond the words themselves. It had to do two things: describe the intentions of youth ministry at Lincoln Memorial; and describe ministry as a whole. So, the two words chosen were\u00a0wheel and scape.<\/p>\n
Usually, when we think wheel<\/em>, we think tires on a bike, skateboard, car, and so on. But, our wheel<\/em> is referring\u00a0to a potter\u2019s wheel that is used by artists to shape\u00a0clay. You know, make cups, vases, and dishes. The\u00a0Bible makes mention of the potter\u2019s wheel and\/or clay (Isaiah 29:16; 64:8; Jer. 18:1-6; Jb 33: 6; etc.). As Christians, we are being molded into the image of Christ, transformed (2 Co. 4:2 and Rom. 8:29).<\/p>\n Now,\u00a0the second part of the word, scape, is taken from landscape. Landscape is land or scenery\u00a0\u2013 a place.\u00a0So, the\u00a0scape in WHEEL<\/strong>scape is a place where something is formed. That something is someone(s), our youth. To make it plain,\u00a0\u00a0WHEEL<\/strong>scape is a place where youth are formed on the potter\u2019s wheel. The potter is\u00a0God, and the wheel is\u00a0the teaching, hearing, and doing of the Word with all that our youth have to give.<\/p>\n Inspiration:\u00a0\u201cLet no one despise your youth [Timothy], but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity\u201d (NRSV 1 Timothy 4:12). Our youth are not only\u00a0important to our\u00a0Lincoln Memorial Family, but\u00a0to the Christian community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coming up with a name for our youth ministry was work. The name had to have meaning beyond the words themselves. It had to do two things: describe the intentions of youth ministry at Lincoln Memorial; and describe ministry as a whole. So, the two words chosen were\u00a0wheel and scape. Usually, when we think wheel, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,21,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-caroling","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innercitytechnology.com\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innercitytechnology.com\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innercitytechnology.com\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innercitytechnology.com\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innercitytechnology.com\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innercitytechnology.com\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innercitytechnology.com\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innercitytechnology.com\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innercitytechnology.com\/lincoln\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}