PLAY ON!
scenes from the film of
my life
I have come to realize God is at work in my life beyond my expectations. He is an out-of-the-box
God, and when I encountered Him nothing was ever the same again. When He comes to us, he calls
us to a new vision, a new way, a new dream. He has no problem interrupting our ordinary lives with
a call to the extraordinary. And He expects us to loosen our grip on our plans, our desires, our dreams
and take on His. And when we do, It’s like being on a crazy roller-coaster ride with Jesus beside you.
Here’s my story….
SCENE 1: I came to know the Lord at a neighborhood Bible
study. It was held at a church near my home, but it was this
church’s first outreach into the community. On Wednesday
mornings, the only people from the church were the group
leaders, assistants and the child care workers. They had their
own church women’s Bible study on Tuesday mornings.
The church targeted neighborhoods around the church and
put flyers in everyone’s mailbox. The free childcare definitely
drew me in. I had a rambunctious child named Jim and was
eager for a break!
Very religious and working my way into heaven, I would have
never listened to someone witness to me. God in His grace,
used a non-threatening Bible Study in my neighborhood on
the Gospel of John to introduce me to His Son, the Lord Jesus
Christ.
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Lesson Learned: A prayerful willingness to provide a nonthreatening environment to enable people to get into Scripture is all that is needed—Our amazing God can do the rest.
SCENE 2: Both my husband and I had become believers
and found ourselves in a new church where we were growing. Reaching out to invite people into our home for Bible
study was a foreign concept to me. However, the church
was asking people to volunteer their homes and invite people from the neighborhood to attend two meetings where
the pastor would do a walk through of the Old and New Testament. They would provide the invitations, and we just filled
in the date, time and our address. My husband insisted we
sign up for one of the slots.
One evening we had just settled the kids down when the
doorbell rang. It was a couple from church dropping off