John 8:1-12
1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11 “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Tomorrow our church will be hosting an event from the BGCT known as Congreso experience, which this year’s theme is illuminate based of John 8:12. Congreso experience is a smaller setting of the bigger youth conference that is usually hosted on Passover week, Congreso is the longest running Hispanic youth conference in Texas. Congreso is dear to my heart because I enjoyed it thru the years as a youth, and some of my fondest memories with my youth group were made at Congreso, and as a youth pastor I got to continue making wonderful memories with the different generations of youth that got to experience this event with as their pastor.
Now the focus of Congreso has always been to equip youth to be the “Light” to share the gospel to their peers. Thru the years many have been bless by this conference and it has been a way for many youth to come together and have a time of fellowship and worship, and this weekend we will have the blessing to host this event by which many churches thru the RGV will come together and worship our Lord, for many this will be their first Congreso experience I hope they can be bless by this event and that they may draw closer to God, so that they can illuminate their piers with the Gospel of Jesus.
I pray for the young woman and young men that will be coming to experience this event, that wen they get back to their churches they can share how wonderful the experience and fellowship was, and above all for them to remember that we must share the light in this world that is surrounded by darkness and only thru Jesus can be Illuminated and find salvation thru him. In Jesus name amen.
Pastor Luis.