A reality check...

This week, I am more aware of two things:

1. I want to invite students to really encounter Jesus for themselves, and not the Jesus we have made Him out to be. I want them to experience the Jesus that raises people from the dead, heals the lame, and turns empty stone jars into choice wine.
2. I don't know how to do that.

Luckily, God reminded me that He knows how to call people to that. I just need to be faithful and be bold when I am told. I am shy and I am afraid of what people will think of me, but I am tired of settling and asking students to join Bible study for the sake of numbers or having them study Scripture in a new and insightful way. I want to see changes, I want to see their lives transformed.

Why? Well, I am starting to believe that God isn't a God that was powerful back in the day when stories were recorded in the Bible. He is just as powerful today and wants to restore us!

Personally, I have sacrificed too much and gone in way too deep to call students to some surface level change. We're going all the way because God isn't content in filling us a little bit, He wants to fill us to the brim with the best things He can give us.

Oh Jesus, help us to live this out.