David Nasser, 'Love Mercy', PM Session

The Momentum Youth Choir kicked off the Tuesday evening Momentum East main session. The group practices every morning to be prepared to lead the conference in singing. Aaron Shust and the Steve Fee band energized the crowd with uplifting music to God.

Jeff Bogue introduced Kyle from Minerva, Ohio, who shared how he took a few of his youth to a town about five miles away to share the love of Jesus. They gave away flowers and zebra cakes to the people they met. Two teens from the group shared how God used them during the afternoon.

Steph and Matt, Operation Barnabas International students, talked about their summer and what God taught them.

TK (Timothy Kurtaneck) introduced the National Youth Offering, which is taken annually at Momentum to meet specific needs. He shared that the evening’s gifts would help care for the weekend’s We Care initiative and to assist with the cost of facility repairs at the Urban Hope Training Center in Philadelphia. Two students prayed before the offering was taken. Operation Barnabas performed a mime during the offering.

(More than $24,000 was raised through the offering.)

Larry Everett, We Care Coordinator, introduced Scott Davidson. Scott works with Dayton’s Soul Winners for Jesus. Scott told the students that they are a direct answer to prayer because students will touch many lives on Saturday. He estimated that 100 students would touch more than 12,000 homes in a five hour period. Larry closed the time by praying for the students.

After worship led by Aaron Shust, Julie, a student who accepted Christ after David Nasser spoke last year, introduced David.

Adding to what Chan said this morning, Nasser began by saying that justice is a legal term. But mercy is defined as a kind and gentle treatment of someone; even a wrong-doer or opponent would have no right to it.

In John 6:35, Jesus declared “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.” These words cost Jesus His life, Nasser said, and 153,000 people have lost their lives this year because they believe this to be true.

Nasser then went on to talk about the incredible love Jesus had when he fed the 5,000 in John 6. When the people were hungry, Jesus didn’t preach, He fed them. This built a bridge for Him to preach the hard truth into their lives of Him being the eternal bread, Nasser said.

Nasser told the story of an event he did in Gatlinburg, Tenn., where 500 students stayed in a hotel. David and his wife were leaving, going down the elevator, when a cleaning lady got in. As soon as it closed he realized that the cleaning lady was crying. So Nasser stopped the elevator and asked the lady why she was crying. Through her tears, she told Nasser and his wife that she didn’t understand why the group had treated the hotel staff so well and left such large tips. It opened the door for the couple to share the Gospel with her.

Nasser encouraged the students to have mercy on people first to open doors to share Christ.