July 2 is NBCC Youth Prayer Day
Dimapur, July 1 (MExN): Stating that values are standards of one’s behaviour which cannot be measured by with “any amount of money or materials,” the NBCC Youth Ministry, on July 1, appealed the youth to inculcate good values based on Christians’ morality and ethics.
Besides, being spiritually lucid, it include loving one’s neighbours, being humble and honest, and not being self-righteous, promoting peace and good will, NBCC Youth Secretary, Rev. Vikuo Rhi said in a message released on the eve of its Youth Prayer Day on July 2.
Stop holding grudges and instead of revenge, cultivate the habit of forgiving one another and help the poor and needy for a purposeful life, it said.
Stressing for ‘Walking the Talk’ by practicing what one preaches and avoiding hypocrisy, it said “Our society is full of corruption, vulnerable to all kinds of evils... We talk about clean election of do’s and don’ts; we pretended to be good Christian on Sundays, but failing to keep all these values may result as valueless.”
As a principled Christian young boys and girls, let us start to sow seeds of values and not corruptible seeds, it further said.
The values taught in the Bible are in opposite to worldly values such as wealth, power, pleasure, revenge, fame, vanity and status, which promote jealousies, resentments and conflicts among people, it added.
On NBCC Youth Day of Prayer, the Youth Ministry further encouraged the churches to mobilize the Youth to come together for a meaningful time of prayer in their respective churches.
“It’s not that prayer always changes things but it always changes us... Prayer is not optional on our spiritual checklist. It is not a duty; it is a necessity.”
In the face of challenges ahead, let the youth resolve to be more than ever, a praying people, it added.
