Last Thursday night I spoke out of Matthew and gave an invitation to, know and follow Jesus, get out of the boat, and take risks for Jesus. We had 133 students attend! As I shared personal stories about failure and risks I saw students become more open to hearing what God might be challenging them to do. One woman, Lauren, raised her hand saying she wanted to follow Jesus for the first time! About 50 students raised their hand saying they wanted to take a risk for Jesus during the next week.
As an application each student was given the ever popular, "silly band" in the shape of a boat. This was to serve as reminder to them to get out of the boat and take risks for Jesus. They were also challenged to be asking one another about the risks they had been taking. A couple stories from the night:
Mary is a freshman student who identifies as being, "agnostic." I saw that she took a bracelet so I asked her what kind of risks she was wanting to take in the next week for Jesus. She said, "I really want to take risks in talking with people that I wouldn't normally talk to and ask questions about Jesus." For Mary taking a risk is to start asking questions about Jesus. Pray that she would say yes to that risk and see how exciting it is to walk on water with Jesus!
Alex is a senior student leading a freshman bible study. After the talk he came up to me and said, "That was so cool to be able to talk with the people next to us about where they were at. I sat next to Bree from my bible study and now I feel like I know her so much better. She really wants to take risks and I can hold her accountable for doing that!" Pray that as a community we would be challenging, encouraging, and asking one another about how we are actively living out our faith on campus!
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