The Word of God

On Wednesday I decided to be more intentional about my discipleship of some of the senior players so met with 2 of them. For an hour we sat on the floor of my bedroom and read through 1 Timothy 1, talked, shared and prayed. At times it was slow going as one of the players had to translate a lot of the more complex English into Tamil and vice-versa but it was really encouraging to hear these young men speak of coming out of traditionally Hindu families and growing in their desire to serve the Lord. It was also a great opportunity for me to share some of the issues I have been thinking through in terms of my life and sports ministry with them. I pray that God will use some of the things we talked about and that I'll have opportunities to not only meet again with these 2 but spend time with a couple of the others.

In the evening I again saw the power of teaching about and from God's word but in a much larger context as I attended a large meeting to hear Ravi Zacharias speak. It was great to hear a strong talk (by someone the locals excitedly consider something of a local boy done good) on the topic of 'Has Christianity Failed You'. Where the discussion in the morning was simple, fragmentary and sometimes confused, the evening had no such problems as Ravi presented a Biblical and intellectual approach to the contrarieties of Christianity and then he and another visiting English lecturer answered questions people submitted on slips of paper.

Both meetings though had in common a desire to not only know more about God but to see our lives in the light of what He has done for us and left me touched by an awareness of what trully returning to the source can do in our lives (mine definitely included).