Excerpts from a student
paper on their Personal Mission Statement:
“For a long time I felt bad about one sin in my life. I tried to
get rid of it on my own but I couldn’t… I prayed and prayed over
and over asking God to take it away. I tried everything I knew how to
but it never went away. God didn’t remove this sin
from me and I felt betrayed…. Finally, I
realized that God will never take it away because He
wants me to comfort others in the same trouble… If I got over it I would no longer be able to comfort others struggling
like I was… So this is my life’s mission: to comfort those I find who are in
the same pit I’m in—this is what I am called to do.”
Now, don’t
be too hard on this Freshman, she is only six months out of high school.
Perhaps, instead, we should discuss the theology behind the statement. If this
approach is common in your congregation what would
you preach to them next week? If she is from your church what does it tell us? How does
it relate to the wave of “being authentic?” How do you react to this
excerpt?
So what do you think?
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Keith
Drury