STP #7
Well Hello there,
I would just like to start off by saying sorry to everyone who follows the blog as it has been well over a week since my last post. It has been very busy here at the project and I have struggled to get time away to write a new blog post. So I guess I should get started.
Since the last time I wrote a few things that have happened: Steve Discher gave the Theme talk for the week, I have been leading campus time for the last two weeks, the Lord has been convicting me of a lot of sin and to be truthful project has been really hard as of recently, and I have been getting really excited for this next school year and ministry on the basketball team and on campus.
On Monday Discher gave his theme talk called “The Cost of Discipleship”. In it he talked a lot about how discipleship has played itself out in his life and also a biblical basis for discipleship. When he talked about how discipleship had impacted his life he talked a lot about James Lecheler and in fact it was James Lecheler who discipled me my freshman and sophomore years at Northwestern College. So it was really cool getting to think back to how James had such a strong spiritual impact on me and I just got to think back to how God has been so gracious to me at college through James and Campus Outreach as a ministry.
This then lead me to get excited about ministry this coming year and investing time into freshman guys like James invested time into me. I have been really been looking back at this last school year and how ministry went on the team and have been evaluating where I failed and how I can better invest time in and serve/minister to this year’s freshman class. I guess one thing you could be praying for is that God would be working in the hearts of the freshman class that is coming into Northwestern both on the basketball team and on the campus in general.
Along with that I have been leading NWC’s campus time since the staff have left and it has been very encouraging thinking for the group of students that are here at project and how God can affect NWC’s campus through us this next year. It has been getting me thinking a lot about my last year at NWC and how this last year has a lot of opportunity and I have been getting really excited. One thing we have been talking a lot about during NWC’s campus time is the idea of deeper community. At project a lot of the students from NWC have been noticing that community at STP is different than community at NWC even though it is technically a Christian college. The difference is that community here is much more upfront and real about our sin than most people are at NWC. There seems to be a trend in Christian community where we want to all look like good Christians and thus hide our sin. This is not Christian community at all because as Christians we should be to most open people about our sin because we have an advocate and savior in Jesus Christ. We are no longer under the pressure of looking good because we are seen as righteous in the sight of God.
Along those lines, the Lord has been revealing a lot of sin in my life this last week. I have been seeing a lot of selfishness in that it is really hard for me to want to take time and press into the guys that are in my room. This is completely selfish of me because that is the reason I am here this summer, to help the guys that are put in my room to spiritually grow this summer. It all comes down that I do not believe well that the Gospel and Jesus Christ are enough for me. I think that I need to take care of myself first and then worry about others but that is not being a servant. Phil 2:3-4 “Do nothing out of rivalry or conceit but in humility count others as more significant than yourselves, look not to your own interests but also to the interest of others. Have this mind among your selves which is yours in Jesus Christ.” Thank God that I have a savior in Jesus Christ who saves me from my selfishness and my not loving others well.
So that is how my last week has been going hope it was helpful to you. I ask that you pray for three things: 1. That God would crush selfishness in me, 2. That God would continue to work in the lives of the guys in my room, and 3. That God would be preparing the hearts of this year’s freshman class at NWC. Thanks
If you are interested here are links to some of the newly posted talks here at the STP…
Again Thanks to all who read this blog are praying for me or are supporting me in being down here. You are all a great blessing from the Lord.
Peace & God Bless
Levi Peterson
