Today's been a banner day for student ministry in my life. No throngs of students flocking to the altar, no multi-thousand dollar events drawing huge numbers...Just conversations with at least 20 different individuals at different times during the day that revolved around the simplicity of the important, rather than the tyranny of the urgent.
What was so important in the conversations with those students? For today, I've seen an incredible realness not often seen so jam packed in any 24 hour period. Talk of pursuing God and living life for Christ by being the church rather than in one...Talk of repenting of sin (It's great to hear that word acknowledged by students, sometimes hard to pick out against the great backdrop of noise)...Talk of purity in a time of students living life like everybody else...Talk of motivating others to honor Jesus by not living two faced lives.
You want to know the crazy part? The above description comes not from my mind, but nearly quoted verbatim from all the real, deep, heart pouring out conversations I've had today with middle schoolers and high schoolers and college age students. Funny how all that happened in one day.
It's just an amazing reminder to me of God's heart for students.
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That's what it is all about--planting the seeds...sometimes we see the harvest immediately, and sometimes it takes a while for the concept seeds to germinate and grow...but God's words are getting into their heads. (Isaiah 55:11) We just have to be faithful in continuing to speak God into students--even when it seems like they are not listening! :-)
I'm glad you got a chance to talk to them about real-life issues that affect them in their daily life.
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