Last night at Proximity (a weekly meeting help by Campus Outreach) the question that came up was.. how many paths/ ways are there to God? After Danny aka “BamBam” introduced himself and the topic he played a video called many paths to God? I’ve attached the link below for you to check it out as well…
http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/654464
I’m not sure what you’re feeling now that you’ve seen that video or if you’re feeling anything at all. After we watched the video, I turned to my roommate to see that her express was opposite of mine. I thought, “Man, I’m such a baby,” as tears were about to pour out of my eyes. But that’s how I felt… my eyes were full of tears because I wanted to cry out for each of those people. I wanted to cry for people I didn’t know and probably will never even meet. I wanted to jump through the screen and tell them about Christ, about His grace, and how through His love by Him dying on the cross for us that we are able to reach God. That He is the path and the only way. But clearly technology isn’t that advanced or I would have tried to jump straight through that screen.
Then I thought about all the people here in Statesboro, Georgia. In case you didn’t know Statesboro has a population of about 28,000 people, but I’m pretty sure that includes the estimated 25,000 students that attend college here. It is small compared to say Atlanta, Georgia, but you try going into WalMart the day school starts. No thank you!! Anyways, that’s a lot of people… how many of them have heard of God? How many of them say there are many paths to God? How many are Christians… of those “Christians,” how many of them have taken up their cross and died to themselves to follow Christ? The answer is… I really don’t know. I wonder if I made a video and asked the same question (are there many paths to God) on Georgia Southern’s campus, what would it look like? Or a video of just the people I know? Again I cry.
The other week I cried (Okay I’m exaggerating… I balled my eyes out for hours!!) when I hung out with a very, very dear friend of mine. As much as I want to deny the truth and don’t want it to be the truth, this person doesn’t know that path. I cried for a person that I have known for four years. I cried because in four years I have yet to tell that person about the love of Christ. This person knows I’m a Christian, but that’s it!! For four years, I allowed my light to be covered because I wasn’t willing to die to the things of the world.
“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” – Matthew 5:14-16
-John 3:30
