Blind faith
I can't remember the last time I felt the way I've felt this past week. For several months, I've been very unhappy with my life. Spiritually, I have felt so drained and distant due to the lack of fellowship. I didn't know how to get out of this slump. As I was praying a few weeks ago, I felt God calling me to collaborate with Morgan, one of my best friends, and start a Bible study for college age kids (yeah, we're still kids at heart). I thought about it and came up with many reasons why I thought it wouldn't work and why I didn't want to try it - mainly because I have not had much experience in doing lessons. So I kind of ignored the call and went on with my life, continuing to feel that empty feeling.
Last weekend, I was talking with Morgan over AIM and we shared our spiritual struggles. I could not believe that she was having almost identical problems! We got to talking about FAFY, our old high school youth group, and I threw out the idea of starting a college-age Bible study. To my surprise, she felt a similar call, and she started pouring out ideas. So we met on Saturday afternoon and discussed ideas and prayed. We also talked to her pastor, who believed we had a great idea and agreed to let us use the church for the Bible study.
While I am very excited about this idea coming to life, I am also very nervous. We are following God by blind faith. If you had asked me a month ago if I would ever be doing something like this, I would've told you no way. But when I made the connection with Morgan and started finding that there is an interest among local college students for something like this, I realized that God is wanting to use me. And although it may be tough and tedious trying to get something like this going, I am willing to do it. My spiritual life needs to grow, and I believe He is giving me that opportunity.
So, with that said, I would like to invite anyone who is a college student or will be this fall to Fairmount Friends church at 7 PM on Thursday nights for Bible study. Tomorrow will be the first meeting. I think there will be some food, games, and fun along with a short lesson given by yours truly tomorrow evening, so please come if you can! We're going to share ideas and find out what people would like the Bible study to be like. Morgan and I are only going to be the organizers, not head leaders or anything. We want to be as equal as everyone else. This isn't our Bible study...it's God's. Everyone needs to feel welcome and involved if this is going to work. Anyone who wants to lead a lesson is more than welcome to do so.
I'm not sure how this is going to turn out. But I believe that it is God's will for me to do this, and so I'm going to give it all I've got. No excuses. Thursday nights, 7 PM, Fairmount Friends. Hope to see you there.
God bless, keep it real.
Mark
Last weekend, I was talking with Morgan over AIM and we shared our spiritual struggles. I could not believe that she was having almost identical problems! We got to talking about FAFY, our old high school youth group, and I threw out the idea of starting a college-age Bible study. To my surprise, she felt a similar call, and she started pouring out ideas. So we met on Saturday afternoon and discussed ideas and prayed. We also talked to her pastor, who believed we had a great idea and agreed to let us use the church for the Bible study.
While I am very excited about this idea coming to life, I am also very nervous. We are following God by blind faith. If you had asked me a month ago if I would ever be doing something like this, I would've told you no way. But when I made the connection with Morgan and started finding that there is an interest among local college students for something like this, I realized that God is wanting to use me. And although it may be tough and tedious trying to get something like this going, I am willing to do it. My spiritual life needs to grow, and I believe He is giving me that opportunity.
So, with that said, I would like to invite anyone who is a college student or will be this fall to Fairmount Friends church at 7 PM on Thursday nights for Bible study. Tomorrow will be the first meeting. I think there will be some food, games, and fun along with a short lesson given by yours truly tomorrow evening, so please come if you can! We're going to share ideas and find out what people would like the Bible study to be like. Morgan and I are only going to be the organizers, not head leaders or anything. We want to be as equal as everyone else. This isn't our Bible study...it's God's. Everyone needs to feel welcome and involved if this is going to work. Anyone who wants to lead a lesson is more than welcome to do so.
I'm not sure how this is going to turn out. But I believe that it is God's will for me to do this, and so I'm going to give it all I've got. No excuses. Thursday nights, 7 PM, Fairmount Friends. Hope to see you there.
God bless, keep it real.
Mark