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In efforts to get people in Ann Arbor thinking about who Jesus is, I've been conducting one question surveys to get people's honest thoughts on what they think of Jesus. The first time I did this exercise was with my ministry team, and I was blown away that 1) people were very willing to fill in the blank in "Jesus is _____, 2) there were more believers than I expected, and 3) some people genuinely had NO IDEA who Jesus was to them personally.

My lifegroup participated in this exercise last night, this time not only to gauge the spiritual climate of this campus, but also to get our fresh JESUS IS rave cards out into the city! The survey was an excellent, non-intimidating segway to promote our Easter Celebration to strangers, and I'm thankful I had the chance to do this with my LG.

The responses I've received in the past varies from things like.. Jesus is ______:
black
my savior
love
someone important to others but not to me
a prophet
not real

However, the most ! response I got yesterday was actually from a friend I ran into by accident. He hesitated to give me his honest response, but ended up writing out..
Jesus is: "hopefully forgiving"

I had never really talked about spiritual things with this friend, so as soon as he submitted his answer, I merely gave him a rave card promoting our Easter Celebration (out of standard protocol) and was ready to walk away. I didn't think much about how my friend had responded, but Mathew from my LG mentioned how the sermon being preached this Sunday would actually be about how Jesus is: forgiving (!) He extended an invite and my friend asked me to just fb msg him a reminder.

I couldn't believe it! Time and time again God blows me away by moving in people's lives, even when I don't pray for it/want it/ask for it. Even when we are faithless, he always remains faithful--for he cannot deny himself (2 Tim 2:13).

Comments

Jane Chung said…
I love your posts Nayoung! They're so well written and very refreshing... btw about your Esther post below, I am doing a Life Change series book on both Ruth and Esther and I would HIGH RECOMMEND IT if you didn't do like an IN DEPTH study of Esther. I think you will be blown away. Miss you mucho!
April 13, 2011 at 8:53 PM
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