For the last couple of weeks I have been struggling with this thought, what does it look like to be a Christian? Do you ever think about that? I was at campus life on Friday morning and as I was watching students walk in (some of you) I was thinking to myself, “do these kids even think about God throughout their day?” I think if we saw Christianity walked out in the lives of people who attend church and call themselves Christians we might begin to think about God throughout the day and we might not be asking, “what does being a Christian look like?”
So I started thinking about all of the people I know that
call themselves Christian to see if I could think of anybody who matches what
the Bible says a Christian would like.
I even thought about different things that we teach in church, people
who serve, people who love others, and people who go to church. I couldn’t think of anybody! Until it hit me, I need to stop looking
for someone who is changing the entire world and look for someone who changing
the world the Christ has called them to change.
Then I remembered the one person who changed my world and
my life and still continues to do so.
I realized this on Friday afternoon. This is what he wrote about me on 4 years ago, when his work
with me was “DONE”, but it has never stopped. “The
other person that was sitting behind me was a student of mine. I met him a
couple months after I moved to Indiana. The first time we met I knew that he
had the fingerprints of God on his life. After much work and a couple threats I
finally got him to come to youth group. A couple months later he asked me to
mentor him so he could learn more. He was so teachable then. Within that first
year he told me that he wanted to be pastor… I told him, “Well, it’s about
time.” The rest of his high school years could be described as troubled or
hectic. There were times that other adults would come to me and point out all
the flaws this young man has wondering why I was such a big fan of his. I knew
they were right, they are still right most of the time… but they don’t see how
much potential he has. He is in college now working on the same ministry degree
I earned. I am so proud of him… so disappointed that he hasn’t figured out some
personal stuff yet. I am so excited about his future… so worried about the
things he is doing now. I sat there thinking about him… begging God that he
would just get it, wanting him to follow in my footsteps, hoping he would pass
me one day.” To this day I am that kid that comes to him and asks him
the questions of “what does it mean to be a Christian” and I wonder why he
never responds by “look at my life?”
But I know the answer to why he never responds that way is because he is
Christian with a genuine and pure transformation of the heart and its not about
Him, its about Christ!
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