Ministry is Awesome

Tonight we had our Senior High Ministry. We meet at our church. It went well. After our ministry time a bunch of students and I went to McDonald's. I tell you what tonight I was reminded why I am in ministry. I had an hour talk with a student that knew very little about Jesus. It was amazing. I love ministry. I love sharing Jesus. I love talking about my faith. I love that we are allowed to ask questions. I love that we are allowed to seek truth. I love that the God of the Bible is the only truth and I get paid to share that with students. I sat in McDonald's with a good number of my students watching me share Jesus. I tell them to share Jesus and then they get to watch me do it. Oh what a night. God is so good.

WOW talk about a shot to the face

I have been sitting in meetings the last couple days. As I sat and listened to the speaker yesterday, I was just struck with the thought of how I have sinned. Here is how I have sinned. I sit in my office on most days for hours. Well while in my office I would here someone on the playground. So, I would go and look out the window. What I saw was a dad and daughter playing on the playground. I had never seen them before. Well, one day I went out there and talked with him. He was nice. He works downtown. He takes his daughter with him to work because his wife does not get home in time. Right outside our church we have a a bus station. He would bring his daughter to our church to play on our playground before getting on the bus. When I would here him and his daughter I would think I need to go out and talk to him about Jesus, but I never did. I was convicted that I need to get out of my office and start sharing Jesus outside of my ministry. I have sinned because I have not loved people enough to share Jesus with them.

Self Control

This is a weird way to wake up, but I am weird. Last night I started reading 2 Peter. Well one of the sections talked about sanctification and self control. When I was done reading I stayed up playing games on facebook and looking at sports. This morning when I woke up the passage I read last night was in my head. Basically what it said is that the Holy Spirit gives you self control. When you put your faith and trust in Jesus you get the Holy Spirit and when we yeild to Him we will have self control. Well that blows the escuse that I lack self control out of the water. I have self control because of the Spirits work in my life. I just have to choose to use it. I hate when I have to take credit for my own lazyness.

2 Peter 1:5-11
5 So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better. 6 Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness. 7 Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone. 8 The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But those who fail to develop these virtues are blind or, at least, very shortsighted. They have already forgotten that God has cleansed them from their old life of sin. 10 So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Doing this, you will never stumble or fall away. 11 And God will open wide the gates of heaven for you to enter into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Alright it is time to start doing this more often

Well, I just came back from lunch with a couple friends. They introduced me to something called twitter. So I signed up. What it is, is you have people that become your followers. I think this sound interesting. I am not going to lie having followers sounds cool. It feeds my ego and insecurities. So now I need to keep this up to date as well because people will look at this.

I was reading last night in 2 Timothy. Man 2:22 just jumped off the pages.

2 Timothy 2:22

Run from anything that stimulates youthful lust. Follow anything that makes you want to do right. Pursue faith and love and peace, and enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.

This has to do so much with our hearts. I need to keep my heart pure before God. I also need to make sure that I have people around me that love Jesus. Wow this is nectar to my soul (thanks for that phrase Dan).

I am looking forward to this next week. I get to hang out with a bunch of guys that love Jesus and spur me on in my faith and ministry. I cannot wait to see what God is going to do during these meetings.