Who knew that God could work through a group of clueless college students to change lives?
I suppose that we all knew it, technically–but did we believe it? Okay, maybe we did that, too. What I’ve neglected to do, then, is to claim it.
Our InterVarsity chapter here at Charlotte is in an interesting epoch of its existence. Our staffer recently underwent a kidney transplant, so he’s pretty much unable to come to most of the events that we host until his immune system recuperates a little more. (Along those lines, he’s suffering from strep throat these days, so please pray for him to heal. His immune system is not exactly where it should be to handle such an illness.) This means that these events are essentially student-run–which is great, in one sense, because it lets us know that we really can do it. (With a load of help from God!) But it sometimes seem like such a grown-up task that I often feel as if we’re absolutely incapable.
But praise God, when we are weak, He is strong. And last night He used our lowly college intellects and abilities to do what we can’t: to change lives. Through two simple testimonies and an invitation, led by a sophomore college kid who admitted himself that He had nothing to do with it, people surrendered their lives to Christ.
Normally, when things like that happen at IV, there’s a pastor there giving the talk and the invitation–a pastor who knows what he’s doing. So that’s what we’ve come to expect, is that the pastors do the actual nitty-gritty work of invitations. Not so this night.
So, amid the chaos of embarrassing games, hilarious videos (search “mullet ninjas” on YouTube), broken guitar strings, and abbreviated music sets, God moved. To Him be the glory.
