Every time I drive past this sign on the way to work and school, I sort of laugh. I call it, ‘the athiest sign’. The double meaning of the sign is humerous, but there’s a side to all of this that isn’t very funny. There are people in the world who really are afraid of the church.
At my college, many of my friends have mocked me for what I believe and have been uncomfortable or even hostile at the thought of church and Christianity.
This breaks my heart and I have sought to devote my time in college to engaging my friends in honest conversation about God and about the Bible. As I listen to what they have to say, I am disturbed alarmed to hear all of the misconceptions and lies they have heard about Christ and His church.
It is no surprise that lies are being spread. I feel as a Christian it is my duty to spread truth. I will go anywhere to do it.
A missionary is not neccessarily someone who goes overseas to preach the gospel, a missionary is simply any person who advancing the mission of God. A missionary is a person who lays down thier pride, desires, and fears in order to glorify God with every moment.
That is what I so desperately want to be. I want to spend the rest of my life serving the glory of God. I want to love and serve the people who have decided to hate and fear Christ and His church and encourage them to humble themselves and seek His kingdom.
I want to be part of the description that was used for the disiples in Acts 17:6: “they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials and shouted, “These fellows who have turned the world upside down have come here, too…”
As G.K. Chesterton would explain it, the world is standing on it’s head right now. Bitterness, greif, and hatred are the things mankind is rooted in. I want to do whatever it takes to spread the joy of the Lord where I am so that people can be set right-side up again.
