The young university student sat in the pew, Sunday after Sunday.
Having grown up in a Hindu culture, there wasn’t much interest in Christianity.
Except maybe to argue about why Christianity was wrong.
Despite his faithful attendance, church felt like “mystical nonsense”.
But he lived with a bunch of Christian students.
And he loved it.
Good relationships and a healthy sense of community.
So when they invited him to church, he said yes.
Then all the church people warmly welcomed him.
Church felt like a place he belonged.
His pastor told him – “Know that this is home for you.”
The unconditional love of the people around him was a powerful introduction to the love of God.
The young man met Jesus.
He wanted to be baptized.
Extending the same love and welcome that he experienced with the church, he invited all kinds of people to his baptism.
Now, there’s a few rows of university students each week at church.
What is God doing?
It’s not like this church purposefully set out to reach university students.
God just brought them there.
This seems to be where God might be working.
The pastor is prayerfully paying attention and positively suspicious that God is up to something good.
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