How well do you Yada?

Here's a little snippet of our weekly high school leaders email I'm trying to send out on a weekly basis. 

For your heart…

            If most of you don’t know by know you’ll find out that I’m a geek when it comes to the Bible. It probably borders on an unhealthy level if that’s even possible. Let me explain. (and hopefully this will feed your soul today too! ) Let’s talk Hebrew…

יֹודֵעַ (yo-dey-ah) like the little green guy from star wars but with an A sound.

This is the verb yada meaning "to know" but written in the participle form meaning "knowing" a present action. In Hebrew the verb yada means much more than to know. It means to have an intimate and interactive relationship with its subject. http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/emagazine/018.html

This is the kind of relationship God wants with each one of us. An intimate AND interactive relationship. Which side of that coin do you tend to land on? Jesus encouraged us to love God (intimate) and our neighbors (interactive) As we work with teenagers please please please remember that it’s out of our yada relationship with God that we seek to see the live of students transformed.

Thanks for being the kind of people willing to go into the trenches of teenage life and invest!