I am taking summer school before I head off to work at Crossroads Summer camp and I have a lot of free time on my hands so I came up with a list of goals/challenges for myself this summer BEFORE I go to Crossroads June 24 and I will keep everyone posted on how I am doing with each. All of it is for the practice of discipline and to not be a “sloth” this summer before camp.
-Run 3 miles – I am currently up to 1.5 miles without stopping, but this is out of learning discipline and I am a pretty fast runner when it comes to short distances, but i would like to build my cardio-endurance
-Memorize Romans 6 – A great passage on salvation, and I believe you can use just this passage to lead someone to Christ
-Memorize Campus Crusade for Christ’s “Knowing God Personally” pamphlet/track – 1) Part of going to East Asia on Summer Project in general is to memorize this 2) As a bible study leader for Crusade in the Fall I am required to be familiar with the 4 spiritual laws found in the KGP. 3) It is a very effective evangelism tool.
-Finish ‘Wide Awake‘ – Honestly I’ve been reading this since October. McManus has a lot of really great points and ideas in this book, but it just never really ‘hooked’ me and I’ve been slow in reading it. Personally I have a thing for finishing things I have started.
-Start reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ‘Cost of Discipleship‘ – I read a chapter of this in high school for Summer Forum at Gardner-Webb University, and it was a really challenging book and went over my head, I would love to tackle it again now that I am in college and have matured more spiritually.
-To be a DIFFERENCE this summer at UNCW – God has been challenging me the past couple days to impact UNCW this summer for Christ. Walking around on campus this past week, it seems we have taken a break from reaching out to the students. There are a lot of students still here, and as believers we have seen and heard, so we are responsible for letting others know about the love of Christ. Are we as believers reaching the ones who don’t know Christ this summer? If you are reading this and here in Wilmington for the summer or would like to help in general, I would love to serve with you, please contact me (kdb6310@uncw.edu). I am thinking of starting with something very fundamental first, a weekly prayer group. How can we have a movement of God, without first going to God in prayer? Prayer must be our foundation.
“Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving; praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been imprisoned; that I may make it clear in the way I ought to speak.”
-Colossians 4:2-4
hey there!
I follow you on Twitter and came across your blog on here. Just wanted to encourage you to keep pursuing the Lord and keeping His Word close to your heart. Also, I wanted to warn you a bit about Erwin McManus. I live in Los Angeles and he pastors at a “church” here called Mosaic. It’s more of a self-realization, new age-y gathering than much else. Where Mosaic used to teach the semi-gospel and have Bible studies, they now have “book clubs” that focus ONLY on Erwin’s books. He’s even said outrightly that he doesn’t believe in the rapture. My friend attended for eight months without hearing the message of the Gospel, so she ended up heading out and coming to the church I attend (Reality LA). Anyway, I don’t mean to be divisive… just thought I’d give you a heads up.