Taking steps of faith and watching God move

(L to R): David (STINT teammate), Ruth, Star, Rancer, and Elias (students in Vida Estudiantil) hanging out on campus before going out to start spiritual conversations and share the Gospel with students.

Elias, a Medicine student who recently got involved with Vida Estudiantil, and I were hanging out on campus with a group of students when I asked him, "Have you ever shared the Gospel with students on campus before?" When he told me he had not, I invited him to come with me to do a spiritual survey. So we walked until we found a girl named Clara Luz sitting alone, passing the time between classes. After getting to know Clara Luz using the survey, she told us about her belief in God and Jesus and we posed the question, "If you died tonight and went before God and He asked you why you deserved to enter His heaven, what would you say?" To our utter surprise, this sweet, soft spoken girl who had just claimed to be a Christian, told us frankly that she would undoubtedly go to hell because she was not a good person and had not perfectly obeyed God's will for her life, so He could never possibly allow her into His heaven. Elias and I asked her if she would like to hear how the Bible says that she can establish a personal relationship with God and be sure she will spend eternity in Heaven without depending on her good works. She quickly answered that she would love to hear and so I shared the Four Spiritual Laws booklet with her. Afterwards, she said that she had prayed to invite Christ into her life many times, but never really understood what it meant until now. She said she was ready to give God full control of her life and place Him on the throne of her heart. After praying her own prayer of repentance, surrender, and gratitude for Christ's sacrifice and God's forgiveness, Elias looked at her and said, "Remember how at the beginning of our conversation you said you felt alone and insecure? Now, you'll never be alone because you have the Holy Spirit living inside of you and you will always find security in your relationship with God." After we got her contact information and walked away, Elias said, "Wow, I just love seeing the Holy Spirit move like that." Praise the Lord for students beginning a personal relationship with Him and for believers who are seeing God use them to make an eternal impact on their college campus!