i often have a problem with underestimating the immense opportunity that we have to influence other people's lives. i have been really striving to have a more holistic view of the effect i can have.
i had a really cool and very eye opening experience this past weekend...
from time to time, we will travel to area churches that support campus house. they invite us to come and give an update on things going on at campus house and then they will also often ask me to preach. this past sunday, a church in a little town called amoret, mo invited me to come and share and preach.
i preached on the 4 non-principles of spiritual growth. many of the ideas came from a book by mike yaconelli called messy spirituality. one of the principles was that we must give God 60%. it was basically the idea that there are some circumstances and situations in our lives that make it so that at that particular time, 60% is 100% of all we can give.
after the service was over, i had a gentleman (probably in his 60) come up to me and tell me that i helped him understand something that he has been searching to understand for 30 years. he told me that 30 years ago his son was 7 years old and he was hit by a car and killed. he said that since then, there have been many times where the pain has been so great that he has felt like 60% was all that he could give God. he told me that he had never heard it put that way before and that it gave him a renewed hope.
what an awesome blessing to be used by God. i pray that i would not become cocky or overconfident, but i also pray that i would come to understand the immense opportunity that we have to affect people's lives as God works through us.
thank you Lord, for working through someone so ordinary as myself!
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