GO! FIGHT! WIN!

One thing that is the hardest thing for me to do is leave my comfort zone. I like being comfortable. I like my mountain dew, my tv, my call of duty, my friends, and my overall situation. And that easily filters into my walk with Christ. I get to a point in my life like, “im reading my bible every so often. I pray a lot. I hang out with Christian friends. I go to Christian things. What needs to change? Me and God are on good terms”.

And right when I start to get that mindset, is when things immediately turn south. My relationships with my friends get shallow because I’m not striving to learn about them and learn from them, and we stop talking about spiritual things to help each other out. My relationships in general get boring and shallow. My walk with Christ starts to feel like I am not asking him for answers because I think I already have them.

And this has many repercussions. In the case of friends, how am I supposed to make an impact on this campus if I never meet anybody new? If im always worried about my own personal growth, how can I help others? I mean, finding time to do personal quiet time is awesome and essential, but its not the only “spiritual” time you should be having.

Since I, and most of my friends, are all a part of Campus Crusade for Christ, should we be Crusading? Shouldn’t we be going forth out onto the campus and do work? Shouldn’t we be a task force for Christ? I know I am terrible at this. I barely meet new people, I barely have “spiritual” talks with non-believers. And that’s because im too comfortable. I have a great group of friends, and in my eyes, I think we all spend too much time together. I’m always either in my room with the roommates, in Kristens room, or in bowen hanging out. Im never outside of my comfort zone trying to reach people for Christ, and that is what Campus Crusade is all about. If im involved in Cru, I should be trying my hardest to put the gospel within arms reach of every student on campus. But I don’t. and im starting to find myself to be a hypocrite. (I am in more ways than just this subject, but that’s for another time)

So that’s why next year im pumped. We have an awesome group of guys living in bowen next year. And I believe that a lot of good things can come out of that. If we start up a small group between us, and get to know each other well like we are brothers, then we can branch out and include other guys on the floor or in the building. And if we can reach most of the willing in bowen, we can split up and do it all over again in smaller numbers, and really make an impact. And im so excited for that, and I really hope the other guys are too.

Like at crusade on Thursdays, I was looking out whilst I was up for the band. And I saw that everyone was sitting in their little groups, or cliques if you will. And then I see some people who aren’t sitting with a group. Wouldn’t they like to be included? But imagine me this. If crusade was a real crusade, a real army, and we were going into battle, battle against a large army. And we sent out little groups by group to fight. One clique at a time. Would they win? No. they would get slaughtered. And so would the next group, and the next, until we are all gone.

Now imagine if the entire campus crusade went at once? We would have a fighting chance, and probably (well, definitely) succeed.

This definitely applies to our current situation. Ive heard countless times, “hey are you going to go to (insert Christian event or mission trip here)?”

“well is (insert group friend name here) going?”

“I don’t think so.”

“yeah, I probably wont go”

so many times ive heard this.

Now how are we supposed to get anything done if we wont go unless our friends are going to be there? How can we win a war unless we know who we are fighting with?

We need to unite and fight! Fight the crusade!

And one way to solve this is to exit your comfort zone. Start up a small group with people you don’t know, and get to know them. Get in their lives. And they will get into yours. There is nothing more satisfying than someone who knows what you are dealing with, and is there to pray for you and help you through it. And our Campus Crusade here in Wayne is huge! Imagine if you knew, I mean really knew, almost everyone that attended? So much work would be allowed to happen on this campus. We would no longer have the stumbling blocks that are cliques. We would be one family. One body. One army to fight the crusade. The crusade for Christ.