Day 1 Keynotes | Fr. Mike Schmitz and Emily Wilson | SLS20
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Fr. Mike Schmitz and Emily Wilson kick off the first night at #SLS20 in Phoenix, AZ!
Live and let live. Stay in your own lane. Mind your own business. You do you. That is nice what people say. But what do Christians say? Isn't there something more to being a disciple of Jesus than "being nice"?
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Fr. Mike, I'm impressed. I thank god for you because I'm thinking of returning to my church.
we’ll all be praying for you
To those who are arguing about or becoming preoccupied with Fr Mike's title or training as a Catholic priest, I plea for charity and graciousness. Fr Mike certainly knows his Bible, preaches the gospel, and is an evangelist for Jesus Christ. Thank God for him.
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I love Father Mike! I started watching his channel about a month ago and ever since, I feel like I’ve been growing spiritually. God Bless you Father Mike! You’re an amazing person! You’ve really helped me and many others grow spiritually! Keep doing what you’re doing!
I never get tired of listening to Father Mike!
When a person truly teach from his heart you will absorb all the words from him. When I listened to him the religion is not matter to me but his word from God is really strong. His a true servant of God he deliver it very well.
Praise God for Fr. Mike Schmitz and other priests like him who are loyal to the Catholic faith!
Thank you Lord Jesus Christ, for my Catholic Faith. To you Glory and Praise for ever. Lord Jesus Christ my Lord and My King.
Dear Father Mike, we love you, keep doing what you’re doing, God bless...
I so love Fr Mike… I love Love listening to him, especially his talk regarding the Mass. He blew my mind with the most important /loving part. It was outstanding. I’m more knowledgeable and more in love with my Catholicism now because of him and my upcoming consecration to Blessed Mother.
Fr Mike ... You are an amazing speaker ! May God give you more power to spread His love to youth! ❤️
Love Emily Wilson! She has helped me so much ❤️
Both great presentations. Give Jesus your all, each and every day.
Fr. Mike God bless you
I think it is important to add some clarification to "I am not fine. In the presence of real goodness, I am not good." Fr. Mike says this with reference to his talking about how Peter sees himself in relationship with Jesus who is in the boat with him. I would say that we are good in the presence of real goodness. We are made in the image and likeness of real goodness, which makes us good too. At the very core of our being, we are good. However, our goodness gets distorted by brokenness, by sin, by the influences in our lives that keep us from seeing and being who we truly are. This is what "I am not good" looks like. This is what "I am not fine" looks like. These are not statements made from the perspective of knowing who we truly are, made in the image and likeness of God, but rather reflect how we experience ourselves in a state of brokenness in relationship to God. Peter sees himself in relationship to Jesus from a place of his distorted goodness, not his genuine God-given goodness. This distinction is extremely important. I think that this is what Fr. Mike is referring to. I think it is important not to confuse our true identity with a distortion of that identity.
It is also not as black and white as being good or not good. Each of us does live out the goodness that God made us and each of us lives from a place of brokenness too. It is important to separate out and work toward seeing clearly the difference between who God truly made us from how we falsely perceive ourselves because of brokenness and sin. There is a mix of both in each of us to one degree or another. We want to return to the fullest expression of the goodness that we truly are, in who we are and in what we do, in our identity and in our actions. Returning to who we truly are is one of the greatest ways that we point others to God. Others can see the One in whose image and likeness we are made the more we clearly reflect that image.
We need Jesus to help us find our way back to the genuine goodness that is always there within us to be found. It never goes away. It is always there to be discovered and lived out in a more complete way, in a way that more clearly reflects the God in whose magnificent image and likeness we are made. For this, we need Jesus. For this, Jesus is essential. Turning to Jesus to lead us back to who we truly are is the most life-giving choice we will ever make. It is a choice that we must make over and over again in life if we are to live fully alive, and fully free, becoming clearer and clearer reflections of Divine Love, for our sake and for the sake of the lives of the many others we will cross paths with over the course of our lifetimes.
Hi, it all goes back to the sin nature. The nature that has no power over sin. Whether we think we are good doesn't make us good. Above all things the heart deceitful who can know it?
We are not good. Only God is good. Our righteousness is of God after we have been born again of the Spirit. The blood of Jesus cleanses us of all unrightousness. God sees us not in our righteousness but through the righteousness of Christ.
Only God is able to forgive sin. Only the blood of Christ cleanses. Not a rosary, a dead apostle, good deeds, and certainly not confessing sins to a man Catholics call priests.
A Pope is not your father. God is Father and commands we call no man father except your father of your flesh.
Please, study the Holy Word of God to show yourself approved by Him. In other words know what God is saying, not what we think in our opinions.
@@merrittascott3323 He's arguing.against a New Age-Oprah attitude. 'I'm OK, you're OK.' Well, unless you're in the state of grace not really.
@@merrittascott3323 I am going to reflect on what I understand you as saying is the sin nature. I define our nature as the essence of what makes us human beings. We are made in the image and likeness of God. We are told in Genesis that God looks upon everything he made and saw that it was very good. We have only one nature, which is good, and that nature comes from God who is good. We can't be made by God in God's image and likeness if we have a sin nature, since God does not have a sin nature. People are capable of doing great good. If our nature is a sin nature, how could this even be possible? God made our nature, and God is Love, as it says in 1 John. God created us good out of his divine love. Sin is not our nature, but rather that which keeps us from living our God-given nature. All the destruction and hurt and suffering in the world comes from sin negatively influencing our good God-given nature, over the course of generations and in the current time. Sin does not define our nature, but rather distorts it and draws us away from it. It influences us to act against our God-given nature, but sin is not our nature, or even part of it. It doesn't take away the goodness in us. It doesn't have that power. God doesn't allow it. Through Jesus, God desires to restore us, to help us live more fully again the good nature he created in us, to the degree possible for each of us in this life and in the life to come.
@@MrLattepig Hi Kathy, how pleasing it is to hear from a teachable Christian. I will try to answer but it's lengthy. Always expect scripture to answer questions we have. That is our ONLY TRUE SOURCE OF TRUTH.
Starting in Genesis God had given Adam and Eve many foods to eat from, but one was forbidden. They were told if you eat from the tree of good and evil you shall surely die.
Satan heard those words and began with Eve to tempt her. Now man was created to live forever so how would they die?
In John 3:16 -17 For God so loved the world that He gave us His Only Begotten Son. That whoever believes in Him shall not die but have Eternal Life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it, but that the world through Him could be saved.
Starting in Genesis 3:15 is the conversation with God to Adam and Eve and the Serpent, Satan. In this conversation God prophecies. This is when God said that He would put enmity between you ( the serpent)and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His head.
Galatians 4:4-9 has more knowledge about this. In John 16 Jesus Christ has a discussion with His disciples about His leaving, about the Holy Spirit and more.
In John 17 : 3 Jesus tells us what Eternal Life is. You'll love reading it.
The death that took place when the fruit from the forbidden tree was eaten is spiritual death. The sin of disobedience separated man from God. Our image of being made perfect is gone. I believe it's in Job that you find the words that since the fall of Adam and Eve man is born into sin nature.
In Ephesians 2 ,especially verse one, And you (He made alive),when you were dead by your trespasses and sin.But read the whole chapter.
Romans 6:12-14. When a person becomes born again, sin no longer has dominion over you.
Sin had power over us and was our master. Romans 7 :20- 23.
I hoped this helps you. We have only the nature to sin until we are born again. The conflict within is the carnal nature, sin nature. It's still there fighting against our new nature in Christ. Temptations are not sin. Entertaining it in our minds leads us to act on the temptations.
Keep studying the scriptures for knowledge and understanding of the sin nature, eternal death, and of the New Nature in Christ. I will pray for you, Kathy.
@@merrittascott3323 We're obviously seeing Fr. Mike's talk through different and conflicting points of view. You are not going to convince me of your perspective and neither am I going to convince you of the place that I come from. I approach this from a Catholic point of view and many years of spending hours of time in personal prayer, just me and God. My faith has transformed my life. I am more whole, fully alive, loving, joyful, humble, and at peace than I could have ever imagined was possible when I first gave myself wholeheartedly to God in prayer over 15 years ago. Ultimately, I believe that the greatest thing that matters is that our relationship with God bears fruit in our lives and in our relationships with those around us. Are we growing in love, in mercy, in compassion towards others, and becoming less focused on ourselves? These are signs that our faith is drawing us closer to God, that our faith is a life-giving faith. I hope that you are experiencing these things in your own walk of faith. God loves each and every one of us, regardless of how we understand our faith. God bless you and I wish you all the best.
Thank you Fr.Mike 🙏
I really Really REALLY need Jesus and His Blessed Mother.
Refreshing to hear Father Mike, you are so alive, wise words…..love the way you have a topic you branch off and it all relates…you have a wonderful gift to orate keep it real and interesting…God Bless you ….
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I wish i was there..love fr.mike..♥️👍
Powerful amen 🙏
Jesus is a necessity...Absolutely!
When everyone at SLS20 sees you on screen right after a Fr. Mike talk 😭🤧 (28:38 the video of the Society Devoted to the Sacred Heart I had long hair then haha)
Christina Garcia hahaha, that’s kinda funny, I love those sisters!
I loved this
What does SLS20 stand for? What does it mean? Thanking you all in advance for your clarity. Respect from Dublin, Ireland
Student Leadership Summit 2020
Thanks for asking I was wondering about that Belfast Ireland
Hi Margaret, you can find more information at sls20.org . SLS20 is organized bij focus, (Fellowship of Catholic University Students). www.focus.org. It would be great if you could go to one of their conferences. Next year (SEEK21) will be in St. Louis. Greetings from Belgium!
@@isabeld5960 where is info on 2021 conference
I wish you were my brother I can hug!!!
Ive met jesus in the boat thats how i got fear of God thats how i stopped being luke warm
@20:12...TRIGGERED now THANX.
Thank God for Fr Mike greetings from El Salvador. Please read the email I sent to focus thank you God bless
@6:10 Fr. Mike ...I'd like to think I'm "alert and oriented".....but depending on who I am talking to and whether they tryin to play me for a fool or not....I maybe act a part to go along with their game for a little while...
Father preachers like a true Protestant.
No, he definitely does not preach like a Protestant, he didn't explain even one passage of Scripture in all that time babbling on.
What is SLS in full?
Student Leadership Summit :)
@@jenc5371 Thanks
Thank you Jen C, I've just asked the same question. Again, thank you from Dublin, Ireland.
@@margaretbingham468 you're welcome. :)
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Nice speaches, but if you didn't mention Catholic Church, i'd think you're protestants, guys. We catholics are more than "Jesus knows you"-phrases. There's such a great tradition of our Holy Church and Faith...so many Saints...our Holy Mother...but obviously not popular to talk about it.
Yes, Jesus calls us by name. We need to meet Jesus by praying, going to daily Mass, going to Adoration and being loving to others.
May be this was the focus of this particular talk. He always has different topics of focus at these things.
In the context of the conference at which this happened, this speech followed right on the heels of Holy Mass. In the context of the Internet, Fr. Mike has made presentation after presentation about the teachings of the Catholic Church. For me personally, I feel fortunate to share material with Protestants that will resonate with them. Maybe it’s a step toward the unity of all Christians. In any case, it’s hard to imagine many people in the world at this hour who are winning more souls for Christ than Fr. Schmitz.
No Protestant would ever have said, in effect, as Fr. Schmitz does here, “Despite all my prayer and devotion, if God had taken me [at the moment I waved off extreme unction], I would have been lost to Christ forever.” These offerings are Catholic through and through. I say this as someone who was raised Protestant but converted to the Roman Catholic faith as an adult.
how about in the prayer- " fatherin Heaven, convict us that we should obey your word, not the dead institutions many call the "church.": Jesus said: "And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven."(Matt. 23:9) Sheez, how empty is man's religion? it's painful and wears you out.
Try reading the rest of scripture, such as where St. Paul calls Christians his "children." It wears me out to see anti-Catholics cherry-pick passages without looking at full context or other passages.
@@phoult37 I've read the bible a minimum of 5x first to last word, a degree in Bible/theology and an MDIV including both Hebrew and Greek, on top of that I was a pastor for twenty years which means I've written a minimum of 1000 sermons which are each roughly equal to term papers of about 5 pages each, So yeah , I'd say I've done some Bible reading, but I'm not familiar with Paul using the term children to refer to believers although I am familiar with John doing so ( as in 3 john 1:), even so that does not mean that we assume perfect reciprocity without qualification, so that we simply refer to him or one such as him as "father" which is a direct contradiction of Jesus's teaching as I pointed out specifically in my original post. Therefore Pat, please tell me exactly what passage(s), you have in mind ( where Paul says "children"). I'm not "anti" catholic, just anti catholic theology because it so often overlooks the Bible itself just as when Paul speaks of a characteristic of false teachers by saying: "They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected" (1Timothy 4:13) you know, just as the catholic church denies men marriage that they mat serve as "fathers" (priests), which no doubt as resulted in many egregious sexual sins (thinking especially pedophilia) in church history.my first degree in
Bible /theology I earned in Chicago where i had a weekly ministry to incarcerated youth and there met young guys in catholic seminary training to be priests, I asked them to tell me about their classes(mine were primarily Bible, including theology) and they point blank told me: " we don't really study the bible per se, we study the theology of the early church fathers. I told them: " we study that also, but our primary assignment is to read every book of the Bible we were currently studying 5x per semester, If we don't know the Bible content we flunked. Sort of a huge difference Pat. At least I certainly think so; thing is I've read lots of historical and Dogmatic theology through the years although i always read my bible daily; that includes I've even read and studied the catholic catechism as per the link below, but I don't read it as one who must accept it but rather as one who must evaluate it according to the clear teaching of Scripture and sound reason I'm betting I've read and studied catholic theology more fully and critically than most Catholics, but for sure more than most Catholics have studied historical Protestant theology, my point is I'm not a cherry-picker, and you shouldn't assume all protestants are, most serious protestants I've known are much more familiar with Bible content than most Catholics I've known hands down, by the way it was just a you tube comment not the place for an extended contextual study, just a simple point, I've read dear abby posts with better advice and more authority than the video, if that's "preaching" that's very sad, I'd give him an "F or D at the very best," but I would expect that because you guys are more interested in St. Augustine and Francis of Assisi than Jesus or St. Paul,: ccc.usccb.org/flipbooks/catechism/index.html#II
@@dmmusicmusic I don't really care how often you've read the Bible, nor your protestant degrees. The supposed "Christian" ministers who teach acceptance of homosexuality, abortion, contraception, etc. also have degrees. Doesn't make them, nor you, correct.
To answer your question, here's a sampling of St. Paul referring to spiritual fatherhood:
Acts 7:2
2 To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.
Romans 9:10
10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.
1 CORINTHIANS 4:17
For this cause I have sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church
(many other examples of Paul referring to Timothy as his "son")
Titus 1:4
“To Titus, my true child in a common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior”
Philem. 10
“I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment”
1 Cor. 4:14-15
“I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel"
Gal. 4:19
19 "My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you."
I didn't even include the examples of Sts. Peter and John also referring to a spiritual fatherhood.
@@phoult37 all quite beside the point, but thanks for the references. It's Matt. 23:1-39 that sets the context w Jesus condemning the system of the religious leaders that sets them apart and gives them a position of honor,(especially the pharisees, but it would seem any similar "system is parallel) Jesus teaches instead the fatherhood of god for Christ's followers and that the disciples are "one" in Him and before him
“But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one Master and you are all brothers. etc., etc., Incidentally, my ppoint in referring to my bible study and degrees was not to "prove" I was right, it was very simply to point out I don't belong to the "cherry-picker " group. I am a serious Bible / theology student and was non-denominational for most of my formal ministry. you should at least give me kudos for having read catholic theology. I was going to do my PhD at the catholic university of Leuven, Belgium; but the organization I was with would not agree to it since I was planting a Protestant church in Antwerp. old news, I thought it was a good missiological move, they thought it would be a distraction but again my point here is I've never simply studied "one side" only, I do real Biblical/theological research and have critically addressed, hopefully fairly, other traditions from the pulpitwhen for instance, preaching through the apostles creed.
At any rate, you tube is not the place I don't think, we're sorta speaking past one another here. If you're interested in truly reading Protestant theology and not just stereotyping I'd recommend:" foundations of the christian faith" by james montgomery Boice. It's well-written and historically robust because church history was one of Dr. Boice's areas of strength. here's a link to a page that provides a brief summary of the Gospel. yes, of course from a Protestant perspective, but it takes a lot less time than reading the catechism!
Peace: twowaystolive.com/
@@dmmusicmusic Your claim:
"So yeah , I'd say I've done some Bible reading, but I'm not familiar with Paul using the term children to refer to believers although I am familiar with John doing so ( as in 3 john 1:)"
I don't really care how you want to explain Matt 23:1-39; you made a silly claim that was easy to refute, and it's especially funny considering how much time you spent bolstering your own credentials and ego. For a guy who has read the Bible 5X and written countless pages of sermons, you sure missed some obvious passages.
Sadly, catholics have not believed in the Jesus of The Bible. They only believe that Jesus died for their past sins and they have to cover their future sins which is contrary to the gospel of grace.
Don't delude yourself. The narrow gate, remember!
Katarzyna Czajkowska and the fathers house has many rooms. You’re not on a constant tight rope for salvation
Gregg Jackson Protestants are still protestants, from a root word protest for 500 years, to the 2,000 years , “The Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.”
@@weden3199 yes... "and gates of hell shall NOT prevail against It!" + Amen 🙏✝️😇😊
Whatever you're smoking, I'd love some. 😂😂😂
Poo l
An actor who reads his lines too fast.
Please try focusing on what he's saying rather than how he's saying it. The guy could be a total whackjob, but the truth shines like a light out of his words and that takes a prayerful and dedicated heart.
@Pro Justice He is a mouth piece for the organisation to get new young members. Does not know what he is talking about when it comes to Jesus the devout jew.
There's a thing called playback speed, boomer
And who are you? Satan/protestant, don’t belong here, go away. Martin Luther took only 66 bibles from the Catholic Church. A coincidence of a scary number 666.
Paul glandy Get new members? Career protestant pastors do that because he has an expensive wife to maintain, kids to feed, house note and car notes to pay. Nobody can serve 2 masters at the same time, a conflict of interest, is the career protestant pastors for God or for money for his family? It’s where you belonged.