New Believer Interview #1

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I had the pleasure of interviewing a young man who has lived most of his life trying to seek a deeper meaning to existence, and to the word faith. He told me that his mother, who was a new believer at the time, raised him in church from the time he was very young. Then as he got older, he (as many of us do) desired to find his own faith and separate from the one his mom had enforced. That’s when I asked him to explain his journey to Christ. He explained, “As I became a teenager, there came a time when I wanted to find out life for myself, so I turned to other things.” That’s when he stopped going to church. Eventually he found that those “things” (worldly pleasures) never seemed to fill the void he felt inside. He said, “I was tired of things not working out in my life: I felt very empty inside. But I knew that there was more for my life so about four months ago, I became serious about the Gospel and dedicated my life to Christ.” “The best part of becoming a Christ follower is “knowing that this is where I’m meant to be. I don’t have to try filling the emptiness anymore by way of worldly pleasure.”
I love seeing the tangible change that God has done in this young mans life. As we talked, I was able to relate to him in a lot of ways as far as our pre-Christ backgrounds go. He inspired and challenged me in a very big way: To build relationships and love people as Jesus does. He said, the thing that has helped him transition the most was being around good people and really building relationships with them. That is very essential to having a good, successful ministry.
May we be fervent as the body of Christ to learn from this powerful testimony and pursue relationships on a deeper level. Maybe then people would be more interested in exploring the freedom Jesus has to offer.