This Friday evening, I
had the privilege of attending Secret Church at Brook Hills.
It was honestly seven of
the greatest hours I have spent during my college career.
But the events that
transpired after Secret Church have had the most profound impact on my life.
The day after Secret
Church rolled around and I began to process all that I had learned the night
before.
I agreed to nanny for a
family going out of town later in the day, and I felt so burdened to put the
Word into action, as Pastor Platt had challenged us to do throughout Secret
Church.
Yet, the enemy caused me
to question how this could be done with young girls.
The topics we covered
were heavy: marriage, sex, homosexuality, polygamy, etc.
Not issues you want to
bring up with children.
That is, if you have any
intention of continuing as their nanny.
Nonetheless, from the
moment I walked in the door, I felt so burdened to share my heart with them.
Not knowing how to
proceed, the Lord blessed me with open doors of opportunity.
The girls began to share
about how they hadn’t ever really gone to church and when they had, they
thought it was worse than school because it was so boring and you couldn’t even
talk.
My heart broke.
The Gospel is intriguing,
The Bible is arguably the
best ‘story book’ of all time,
But children are
neglected in the Church.
Their potential is
overlooked
And therefore their
Church experience is nothing more than non-engaging and boring.
Our God is creative,
unique, beautiful, captivating, personal, and worthy of being portrayed as all
of the above and so much more!
I began to tell them
about my faith family here, and what we had done just the night before.
When they asked why we
studied the Bible for so long,
I explained the correlation
between that and the underground churches across the world.
One of the girls, who is
almost in high school, got wide eyed and said, “people are killed for going to
church?”
In turn, I got wide eyed,
because she had never heard, but more importantly, because of the realization
that I assume everyone knows, that everyone has heard.
But friend, that is far
from the reality.
Just as these girls had
never heard that there are places in this world that people cannot worship or
express their faith freely,
They had never heard of
the Gospel.
There are 302 churches
within driving distance of their home.
Yet they had never heard.
What is the church if not
a beacon of light for the saving power of the Gospel?
In light of what I have
learned this weekend,
Never assume that anyone
already knows.
Please, for the sake of
their eternity!
Redundancy should not be
our concern; fear cannot be a hindering factor.
So no, I did not get into
the ins and outs of Biblical divorce or abortion with these precious girls, but
it is my prayer that at least a seed was planted in their hearts.
Amen. I wasn't able to go to secret church, but I have been ruminating on what you've said for a while now. You also cannot let fear of not knowing what to say keep you from sharing the gospel. Sometimes even our friends are people who have not come to know the Lord. But God can use anything you bring to the table. He cannot use your silence. By staying silent in order to keep your friend, you could end up loving your friend to hell.
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