gearing up for XStream

It's been a pretty good day. I'm feeling up for teaching tonight. Our middle school ministry--XStream--meets Wednesday nights. I'm going to lead a discussion on the first half of the Great Commandment.

It's found in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Interestingly, Jesus speaks the words in answer to a question in Matthew and Mark, while a teacher of the law answers a question from Jesus with those words in Luke's account. I'm guessing that Jesus taught this principle pretty often.

It's one of the questions that I pose to my own kids regularly: What are the 2 most important things in life:
1. Love God with everything I have--heart, soul, mind, strength.
2. Love people like I love myself.

I'm praying that our middle school students can figure out what this means, and how to order their lives around this most important truth. I'm still trying to process what this looks like in my own life. Should be fun!