CAFFEINE Part 10 (What’s going on here?)

At the 2008 National Conference on Catholic Youth Ministry, Kenda Creasy Dean offered a keynote on Going Viral for Jesus. (The full keynote shot with a high quality camera is available for purchase – and so worth it – here.)

In it, she encourages us to be a vessel for the spirit of the Lord, overflowing with grace.  She encourages us to basically get out of the way of the work of the Lord.  Archbishop O’Brien (of ArchBalt( remembers his mentor Cardinal Cooke in that “His first prayer every morning was to never get in the way of anybody trying to do good.”

If our youth ministry caffeine is to truly be stimulating, we can no longer be about the business of “dumping Jesus” onto young people.

Might we be vessels where grace “splashes off of us and onto those around us.”