Calling

This week I sat down with a great friend that is discipling me. If you don't know what discipling is, check out my last post, I put a brief definition in there. It is always something hard for me to do when I tell her everything that I have done wrong since we last met. And yes, we are all naturally born sinners (check out  this article  for more information about that) but I still beat myself up continuously about it. I have a hard time accepting that I am weak, small and born into these tenancies.  In the beginning of discipleship with my friend, I wouldn't tell her about a lot of my hard times. And she helped me understand the world, my hardships, and the biblical truth about them. One thing I really need to consistently tell myself is to be completely honest with my friends when I mess up.  James 5:16 says:  "Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power a...

My friends Micheala, Carolyn and Tristan and me at the Washington Memorial That title sounds like something scary doesn't it? I was doing some reading in Victory Over The Darkness by Neil T. Anderson that I am reading with someone for discipleship . Discipleship is a committed relationship to another person with a teacher and student aspect. (I am currently discipling a student so therefore I am leading a study in a particular book. This can look different to every relationship but typically when someone decides to disciple another person they are investing themselves into someone else's life to bring them closer to Christ and to encourage and challenge them to bring others to Christ.) I learned about discipleship when I joined  CRU , an on campus organization that is committed to fulfilling The Great Commission ( Matthew 28:19-20 ). As I got baptized just one week ago today I thought this was something very important to talk about as it relates to the ministry on Plymouth...

Today I made a huge outward cry of my faith, (see video below, excuse my ugly crying, I was so excited!) I got baptized! I was "baptized" as a very young child, but my parents made the decision for me, and today I made the decision for Christ. Just a couple years ago I didn't think that I needed to get baptized again. I remember dating someone who was also a Christian and he made a HUGE deal about it, and I was honestly hurt because I knew that I was a Christain, that I was going to heaven, and so what if my parents made that decision for me, it worked out right?  I didn't do the research or pray about getting baptized again until much later, about 2 or 3 months ago. I had just started going to a new church this past October that doesn't recognize infant baptism. And I was like, oh yeah, thats kind of cool, and God slowly put it on my heart that I needed to do it again, I needed to make this choice for Him because it was MY salvation not my parents.  So I though...