God at Work

Yo.

So, I'm not sure if I'd told you before most of this story, but me and BP have been meeting up with MSG every week since the beginning of September. He had filled out a survey somewhere on campus during frosh week and indicated that he was interested in meeting up to talk about Jesus. His information was uploaded and on one day when a bunch of us students got together to make some calls to the students who were interested in follow-up I had mostly been calling students who said they were Christian and wanted to grow in their faith, but after a few calls I wanted to call someone who wasn't Christian. So I checked the list, prayed for the person I was going to call, and in less than 3 minutes I had talked to MSG and we had set up a meeting. It was so easy I was actually speechless. Haha

That week I actually met BP and invited him to come with me to meet with MSG.

When we met up it was great and we had a good conversation, but he really wasn't all that interested in the Bible or the gospel. He had grown up in Montreal and had heard a bunch of stuff about God. He was really focused on the potential of humanity and our ability to surpass God if we properly harness our abilities. He had said the Bible was needed to get us to where we are now, but technology will take us from here. We mostly shared about the sinful nature of human hearts and how that really hasn't changed over the centuries. Something BP had really said clicked with him though and he was very interested in meeting up again.

We met up and played board games once. We met up and read a little bit of John 1 and had a conversation very similar to before and looked at a bunch of scriptures, but it didn't really mean much to MSG. He was asking questions about their validity. He was also saying how our sinful nature and desires for wrong or selfishness is just a challenge we need to overcome. We had lunch together and discussed ambitions.

Later he ended up coming to church with me and our pastor was doing a series on the validity of the Bible. Specifically he came to a sermon about the manuscripts and what we have now is what we had then. He also came a couple weeks later.

One week I couldn't go to our normal meeting and BP and him went through the rest of John 1. The following week we ended up meeting up with him separately. BP randomly ran into him on Tuesday and they had a good chat about idols and undivided pursuit of God (a narrow, but meaningful path) and how good things can become idols when out of proportion. He was asking about suffering. On Thursday I got to meet up with him and we read John 2 which really opened his eyes to Jesus being a complex person, not just some love-preaching gentle 2D character. He was sarcastic to his mom and flipped some tables in righteous anger. MSG was really interested in finishing reading the book of John. He was also talking about a movie he had seen and how he sees human sinful nature and selfishness in the characters.

That weekend MSG came to a conference about the New Testament and evidence for its reliability and verisimilitude among other things. It was a really cool conference and MSG got to meet some of my friends and housemates. We had good conversations in break times and lunches. I think it was a really good chance to hear more about the Bible and to hear why we trust in the Biblical Jesus.

The next week MSG came to our P2C weekly meeting where we were having some food and just sharing testimonies. So he got to meet a bunch of the guys and girls and hear stories of what God has done in their lives and why they are following Him now. Really good times for sure. At the end there was a question raised by one of our staff about a reading week trip to Quebec to do evangelism and MSG said he was interested in going. When we met up on Thursday that week we read some of John 3 and had a great talk about it. It was really interesting some of the things MSG was saying. He legit, without prompt said "the Bible is perfect", as well as this interesting concept of how university is his chance to find God and he is worried that after University he will lose himself if he doesn't find out now. He sees his parents and friends who have graduated living empty lives without opportunity to explore and discover more since they are now so stuck in the daily routine. He was asking about sin and why God would make it. He said that this was like the one big barrier in the way of him actually trusting in God.

It's just crazy to see how much God has done in MSG's life over the last couple months and it really wasn't me or BP doing the work. God just has really been changing his heart, getting him to open up and trust us, becoming curious and asking questions, coming to trust and be interested in what the Bible says, even saying that he'd be interested in going to Quebec and sharing the gospel. It's just so cool what God is doing and I want to keep seeing Him do crazy things.

Please pray MSG comes to know Jesus soon and that we can all celebrate with him and the angels and God of one who was dead coming to know life in Christ.

D.Fa