thursday september 2 2010

{speaking up}
Dear Candice,
Last night I was asked to speak at my church to the entire high school group about what God is doing in my life and what the Great Commission means to me. I thought about what I was going to say for a while. I started out by writing out something to say. But then I realized that there’s not really a point in planning anything because God could change it all in a moment’s notice… or in no notice at all. So I started off by talking about you. About how you, all the other kids at the projects, and most importantly, God have changed me. I also talked about the Great Commission and what God has been saying to me about it. Jesus used three main verbs in the Great Commission- go, make disciples, and baptize. In my opinion, Jesus means that we shouldn’t stop….ever, that we should share our testimonies to inspire people to be disciples and follow Jesus, and to wash them with the Gospel without hitting them over the head with a Bible. This is about all I remember saying because I just let God do the talking through what I said.
I got to meet with McCall right before youth last night. We had a super fancy dinner at sonic. She, along with myself, has been called by God to step out be different. Together we are uniting to turn this world all the way around… maybe even upside down, inside out, and around the corner. God has defiantly not called us to do things that are safe. At all. What so ever. But we, as Matthew, are getting up, dropping everything, and following Jesus. This is me, and McCall taking up our crosses and being willing to die for life. So seriously, watch out- we ARE dangerous. In the words of Caetlyn, I am becoming the most dangerous girl to ever walk the halls of Brentwood High.
Here I go to set the world on fire.
I love you.
Love,
sara