Matthew 28:19

"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"                 -Matthew 28:19

Wednesday is my second favorite day of the week. (My first being Sunday if anyone was wondering.) It's not Thursday (My least favorite) and it isn't Monday (my other least favorite.) Wednesday is the middle of the week. It's there to reassure you that Friday is almost here. It's there to provide a day when there is rarely homework, and it's also the day we have our youth thing "Reverb".

I've probably been going to various Reverbs since they started...3 years ago? That sounds right...anyway they've always been on Wednesday nights, and they've always been something that I absolutely love! We play insanely goofy games, hang out, watch videos, and there's always a really good lesson. Tonight's lesson really got to me.

The youth just returned from a mission trip.I didn't go on this one, but I'm planning on going on the next one! So, Grant (My youth pastor) did a lesson about missions. I've always thought about it I guess, and whenever we do lessons about needs in the people around us I usually get pretty emotional. Haha! I don't know why it hits me so hard, but it does! Tonight was no different. There was a video (remake of true story) about a guy who lived in a tribe in the middle of nowhere that had never heard the story of Jesus Christ. It goes on and talks about how he came to know Christ and how his village people were all Christians now because of these missionaries that came to talk and live with them. At the end, he says

"There are hundreds of tribes out there that are just like us. They have never heard of who Jesus Christ is. Who will tell them?"

That to me, just really made me think. I don't know if God wants me to go to the middle of the jungle and tell people about Jesus. Haha He might, but right now I don't know. I think it'll probably be awhile before I have to think about that too hard. Maybe not, but for now I'm open to the idea. :-) Grant was saying in our lesson, you don't have to travel halfway across the world to share the gospel. You can share the gospel with ANYBODY.

You could share it with your next door neighbor, a kid from school, or an old lady at Wal-Mart. It doesn't matter. If you're sharing the Word, then in a sense you ARE being a missionary...just in your own community. It's one thing to know ABOUT who Jesus is. It's another to KNOW Him on a personal level as your Savior. I guess, if we share that then we're doing what God called us to do.

Makes you think doesn't it? Makes me think..........