The Gospel Rocks my Socks Off! (3 Teens Saved )

Hey guys,

I'm sitting in a friend's house in Tennessee. I've been here for a week meeting people who are interested in joining my ministry support team. I was in Missouri for a few days before this for our yearly Great Commission Pastors & Leaders conference.

So the other day, I got a couple phone calls and text messages with the coolest news I've heard in a while. In the last week (while I was gone, of course) 3 of the students we've been hanging out with prayed to received Jesus. It made my day - it made my year! The even cooler part (besides eternal fellowship with Christ and redemption from sin & God's wrath and all that good stuff) was that it actually happened while I was gone.

This year, I was really eager to start some small teen discipleship groups. We call them Root Groups. Two of the guys from our rising sophomore group had been praying for a few days that one of their friends would get saved. In the meantime, CJ (one of the other rising sophomores) invited that same friend to a Greg Laurie crusade. When the invitation came, they looked at each other and CJ asked if his friend wanted to go down front. He said, "I'll go if you go." So (to make a long story short) we have a new believer!

It meant so much to me when CJ took his friend to church the next day and then called to tell me that his friend was already starting to read the Bible. It made me so proud to see a student lead a friend to Christ (without any of us adult leaders pushing it). The best thing is that CJ was himself led to Christ by James - another guy in his small group.

This is "Multiplication"! This is what excites me about ministry. This excited Jesus about ministry! We pass on the power of the gospel from one person to another and one generation to another. Oh yea, did I mention that CJ's sister and one of her friends also went forward to receive Christ? They're part of our new middle school girls Bible study that spun off from the Bible study James & CJ started two years ago.

God is so cool & His gospel rocks my socks off!