Thursday, January 17, 2013

My Friend

Purpose is important.  Without remember that we are commanded by Christ in His Great Commission to share the gospel and teach Christians how to be Christ-followers,  we'd get lost in the thick layers of glitz, glamour, and glee.  Sometimes that means being purposeful in our mission.

Resonate is all about sharing the gospel with those that don't know the freeing love of Christ.  It's also about teaching others to do just that, and that means showing the college students what it means by walking in evangelism first, in my life.

Enter my friend Nathan.  Nathan is a great kid.  He's the kid that I sit next to in class on campus at Pierce College that looks a bit like a gangster.  He's rough around the edges.  He's seen the dark moments that this life has to offer, the kind of things that give you a permanent record.  He's defiantly non-Christian, but he's open to searching out religion.  If I'd have forgotten to beg God to bring him to me, if I'd have been to lazy, if my eyes weren't open to God's leading, I never would have expected him, of all the people I meet on campus, to move toward God.

He's not there yet.  More lunches and calls will follow, but with more prayer and purpose, by the grace of Jesus, I will one day see Nathan in paradise!

Keep praying.  Keep giving.  Through partners like you, lives are changing!


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