Sometimes its like talking to a brick wall. I have led Bible studies for high school students for a number of years now and there always moments like that. Some week are great and you feel like they are really hearing you and sometimes you would swear you were speaking Swahili for the looks on their faces. Transfer to a new culture and a new language… its still the same.
We have been studying once a week “Religion vs. the Gospel of Christ”. We have talked about grace and how there is nothing that we can do that makes God love us any more or any less. We have talked about obedience and gratitude and trusting that God’s plan for our lives really is best. When we trust God, we obey Him because we know that He isn’t out to get us in any way.
This week C went to see her aunt in her old neighborhood. She grew up in a very legalistic and rules-based church there and never felt freedom in Christ. Yesterday she told me that she shared the Gospel with her aunt, that she can be saved by grace alone and not by her works, that she doesn’t have to live under guilt and shame because she can’t keep all the rules, that the Lord’s love for her is constant. She basically shared all the things that we’ve been learning and she really believes them and wants her family to know Jesus in a real and personal way.
The Word of God does not come back void. Sometimes they listen and they learn. The Word of God is powerful. Its transforming their hearts. And it is awesome to watch.
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