New Believers & Non-Believers

Just a quick note on yesterday at church. After the morning service, I was introduced to Liam, a new visitor to the church. What a cool meeting! (and a confirmation of not feeling at peace about visiting another church yesterday). Liam just became a believer 5-6 months ago and it's completely changed his life. He speaks of it in a very visceral way, of God's presence just being so real and overwhelming when life was going so bad. He's being discipled by a local Baptist pastor and his favorite book is Hebrews - although he's spent a lot of time in John, Romans, and the smaller epistles. He really has a passion for the Lord which is exciting. He also attended Mandate Saturday, a men's conference here in Belfast, and said it was a great time of seeing thousands of men worshipping together. He told me that he's trying to figure out how God might want to use him and he's thinking his conviction for men's sexual purity - pornography especially - might be where he sees God using him. I'm really excited for him - if you think about it, join me in praying for him - for God's strengthening of his faith and that he would have the opportunity to minister to other guys.

The second cool experience was last night at church. We had a communion service and Fabian, a student from France, came along with us after dinner. He doesn't go to church and, as far as I can tell, is an athiest. But it was just so cool singing songs of worship with Fabian, curious and perhaps skeptical, next to me. We had a really good conversation afterwards and he enjoyed it a lot more than the church experiences he had had back in France. We'll see, hopefully it'll plant a mustard seed in him that the Spirit will water and grow (Liam had used the "mustard seed" analogy for the growth of his own faith in the morning).