GThe best moment of the college small group thing last night didn't happen with bibles open or in the defined parameters of the discussion, or even within the time we'd alotted for the students to be in our home.
The moment that may just be the most eternal, lasted 45 minutes after the "we're old people curfew." A student called our bluff and didn't leave. He sat on the couch and watched tv. He had the nerve to just sit. Just sit and enjoy the same tv show that we were planning to stay up to late and watch.
Together we shared a, this-is-what-I-want-to-do moment.
We didn't share any life changing thoughts we didn't pray with him (but man have we been praying for him)
We just were.
We let him be a person, he was no longer bible study participant or student or or or. He was just himself and we were ourselves.
No agendas, no plans just living.
There's nothing impressive about this. Its not about anyone crossing a line of faith or making a deeper comitments in their walk with Christ. It simply looks like we created an environment in which that young man felt accepted.
And he stayed for it.
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