Prizefight Teens are asking God for the kind of heart that WILL NOT GIVE UP until it sees the prize of HEAVEN ON EARTH!

• Cambridge site: SUN 9:30-11AM @ Ministry Center basement
• Boston site: SUN 10:30-NOON @ BFIT 4th floor
• Teen Pastor: David Linhart, davidL@bostonvineyard.org, 617-252-0005 x315

FALL FOCUS 2008: GET UNHURT

• SEPTEMBER: PRAYING PSALMS
  Write your own Psalm 105; make God happy with Psalm 119
• OCTOBER: FIGHT
  Romans 12:17-21 Forgive relentlessly and trust God’s promises in every situation
• NOVEMBER: PRIZE
  Revelation 21:3-5 Get God himself, complete healing and unstoppable hope
• DECEMBER: BONUS
  James 1:16-18 No other source for perfect things and nothing like his love for us

PRIZEFIGHT VALUES

Develop personal motivation and ownership for relationship with Jesus

• Receive God’s unstoppable hope
• Know that God offers opportunities not restrictions/rules
• Go home with practical tips that can be tried out right away
• Develop consistent prayer life
• Pray to fall in love with/be devoted to Jesus

Live out relationship with Jesus so others can see what it looks like

• Instead of “Can I prove God?” ask “Can I live out God’s promises?”
• Develop relationships with both churched and unchurched
• Practice leadership and setting an example for others
• Discover and run with talents and passions
• Keep track of and tell my personal story

GET YOUR NEW HEART

Here’s a champion description of the kind of heart we’re asking God to give us, a heart that WILL NOT GIVE UP until it sees the prize of HEAVEN ON EARTH:

“Think about it. How is God’s will being done in heaven? Are people suffering through tribulations and tears, wondering when or even if God will ever take his heavy hand off of them? I don’t think so. That’s not how the Bible defines heaven. No, heaven is the pure expression of the kingdom of God, where there’s no corruption, no agony, no abuse, no deception, no form of wickedness of any kind, and no more tears. There is joy and peace and love in that glorious place, and all those things we deeply crave, and it all flourishes there right now as an expression of God’s will. That’s the sort of thing we’re urged—no, ordered—to pray for. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, this was the first request he included in his example. Why? Because this is the kindgom agenda.”

[Tiegreen, Chris. Violent Prayer. Oregon: Multnomah, 2006.]

PZF stands for Prizefight, which doesn’t mean that we’re a fight club! Prizefight is one way to understand signing up for heaven on earth, receiving the promise of a special PRIZE for each of us individually and all of us together, a prize that satisfies us at the deepest level. At the same time, circumstances in life often try to convince us that we are foolish to believe in God's promises, that things fall apart and never come back together. In these times God prepares us to FIGHT to keep our team together and our hopes high, to safeguard our new heart so we can trust all the more. No settling for less than God's best for us here, we're going all out!