This week, I have really been looking at this area through the eyes of a missionary. God has been speaking to me about a different perspective for seeing my community. I spent Thursday morning at the "well" of AACC. I sat in the cafeteria, praying for the students and that I could effectively help them find their way to Christ.
Today I went to the market. The Severna Park Chamber of Commerce held a trade show at Marley Mall. I went and met the vendors introduced myself as a fellow member of the Chamber, and invited people to SRC till my cards ran out. (I'll need to pick more up tomorrow.)
It was a great trip.
--Ben
2 comments:
Love to hear your thoughts on how you're going to reach the AACC students more effectively.
Adam,
Thanks for checking in. I'd like to give you a really bold and inspirational answer, but the bottom line is that I have no idea. That is why I spent the morning, and will again spend this morning, in prayer. In addition, I've contacted a respected campus missionary to give me advice. He'll be walking the campus with me at the end of the month. He has recommended a book, and given me leads on several other campus missionarys.
I'm challenged by what I heard recently that students are looking for Relationship, Authenticity, and Substance. So that's what I'm going on campus to try and provide.
I don't think you and I have ever met, and I don't know how much of my story you've picked up. But I'm a church planter with a church open for 19 months. We meet on a college campus, and have seen zero (0) come to Christ from the campus. Off campus yes, but not on campus. Jesus didn't give us his Spirit to have those kinds of results.
So I'm trying to figure it out. Break away from the perspective that I pastor a church in the community, and get to a perspective of an apostle in the city. That's why for me the language is changing. In the gospels Jesus and in Acts Paul and his entourage would head into cities and go to specific places. Jesus hung out at wells. Paul went to the synagogue, centers of thought, markets, and rivers. I'm trying to identify those in the "city" that is AACC.
At this point I'm desperate for God to do something. So I'm working like it all depends on me, and praying like it all depends on Him. And getting ready for the stoning. :-)
--Ben
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