Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Why Corps Cadets?

a Biblical thought...
At the LORD's command they encamped, and at the LORD's command they set out. They obeyed the LORD's order, in accordance with his command through Moses. (Numbers 9:23)

a Book thought...
The real estate-bound and program-based church models that characterise most expressions of contemporary churchianity do not address the needs of most peoples lives today. (p82)
a Dave thought...
2Love is just about to launch our new Corps Cadet material and an interactive website for the territory. As part of this process over the last few weeks it has been a lot of fun looking through all the old Corps Cadet material. I have had many conversations over the lat 12 months on why there is a need to bring this discipleship tool back. The four reasons Corps Cadets exist is to study the bible, learn our doctrines, reflect on Salvation Army history and to practically take on how to live a Salvationist lifestyle. Most of our youth bible studies across the territory are studying the bible only which is a good thing but without any of our distinctives being passed on we are really only doing 1 of the 4 purposes at the moment. If we are studying the bible only we can learn this information at thousands of other churches across this country as there is no use for an Army without cadets .

Just a thought.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear that the programme is back. There is a great need for it in our Army today. We are at a crossroad where we have no-one trained to take over leadership roles because of those 3 elements that have been missing. May it be a great success.