While this blogpost title might be a bit misleading, I did not go back to school (though technically I go to A school everyday)…most people that I have caught up with lately know that I joined the college staff at LBC.
And I have loved every bit of it.
College staff minus a few people (Jin, Grace & Tim)
Forgive me for the cliche, but I have been very blessed in a spectrum of ways… I’ve been blessed by the people who I get to labor alongside in striving to challenge one another to love and good deeds for Christ’s sake. I’ve been blessed by the sermons that have been preached at Friday Night Bible Study. I’ve been blessed by the energy and enthusiasm that the collegians have for the things of God.
I’m learning a TON. I’ve been leading an accountability group of juniors and seniors and together, we’ve been reading The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges. I wasn’t sure if it was the best book to pick ( I was also considering The Gospel for Real Life) but like I said, I have been learning so much - getting a real understanding of what holiness is, what God’s holiness demands of us, analyzing my character and my Christian testimony. Studying God’s holiness has helped deepen my understanding of grace and God’s love as I come to terms with how hopeless I would be because I was so dead in my sin without God extending His hand to me through sending Christ to take my place on the cross. Christ exhausted the wrath of God by bearing it all on my behalf. And I am now able to live in fellowship with God. I’ve been trying to remind myself of the gospel each morning during my 25 min. commute to work and its really helped me keep the perspective that i’m not living just for my own pleasures and purposes. Its especially comforting in these tough economic times when security is not really more than an illusion.
Our accountability Group
I’ve had many opportunities to minister to the gals in college – both in and out of my small group. Its a joy to be practicing the principles found in Titus 2 of ministering to younger women in the church. Within our accountability times, my number one challenge for them has been to consider what it means to be a Christian. How are they set apart from the rest of the world – is it obvious that they live for Christ’s sake? We are working through these things together…starting with overarching principles that transform our minds to be Christ-centered and we work down to the nitty gritty of how they spend their time and make their plans for the future. I don’t have a whole lot of confidence in what I’m doing but I just hope for two things: 1) That they love Christ more at the end of this school year than they did at the beginning because of a deeper grasp of His great love for us and 2) that they are on their way to being resolved in living for Christ in a world that mocks Him after they leave their Christian college bubble.
God (and the girls) have been really gracious to me…I ask a lot of questions and I can tell that they are thinking in ways that they have never had to before. I have also been continually humbled by my own shortcomings as I answer my own questions. But it brings me so much joy to know that we’re all running together. We’re not trying to impress one another and
Some of the sophomore girls who I have gotten to spend time with.
its not even that I have all the answers – I’m just there to help them analyze their hearts before God. But praise God, for wisdom that has steadily been increasing (like 200%!!!) since October as I’ve been studying the Word and applying lessons that I learned as a young and wild collegian. I’m so thankful that they are teachable and that they really do desire to be holy. In the little ways that I see them change and even the times that I watch them struggle with different issues, I can see God’s grace in their lives. And God has given me greater clarity to the importance of having a God-centered mentality in everything that we do.
We are all just living to make the most of each day living for the King of Kings….
to say that we lived following Christ. 
