About a month ago, I was walking with one of the sorority woman, Sally, who has been attending Greek InterVarsity. We began to talk about why Sally had not been as active in either her in house ministry and Greek InterVarsity over the past couple weeks. She told me that her involvement with Greek InterVarsity didn’t really matter, because her future was going to be decided on her academic involvement. I started probing about where God fit into her whole world view. Sally’s response was that God was what helped her to try and lead a good life and encouraged her to go to church on Sunday, but that he had nothing to do with classes, friends or most of her day to day decisions. We started talking about how Jesus died for our sins, which allowed us to have ever lasting life. And so I ask, “Sally, doesn’t that demand that you give him your whole life, all of your decisions?” She replied no,  saying that she had never really sinned.  When I asked about what she thought about all sins being the same,  Sally told me that she didn’t really believe that that was true.  I felt that we were at a stand still, so I didn’t push the issue further, and we finished our walk.

Sally continued to attend Greek IV sporadically and she began to get to know one of our guy leaders, Sam.  Sam lives a very sacrificial life style, both with his time and money.  He serves the Lord through Greek IV, his church and volunteering with those less fortunate in our town.  Every Sunday, Sam takes the same homeless man to Church and then the two enjoy a bite to eat.  One day, I called Sally, and asked her again about where did God fit into her life.  She told said that it was funny I asked because the day before she had gone to church with Sam.  Sally was surprised when Sam picked her up and then drove down to the tent city to pick up his homeless friend.  She was even more surprised that Sam treated the man like his friend and wasn’t afraid to share his life or wealth with the man.  When she asked him why he was so willing to give to this man, he told her because Jesus had done the same for him . She was honestly surprised, and asked him what Sam had ever done wrong that was really that bad. He began to talk about things that she did all the time.  On the phone, Sally was shocked.  She couldn’t understand why Sam’s faith caused him to act differently.  She started to talk about all the older students whose lives were different and she said she wanted to have that type of faith.

Sally is loved by our community, and that love has begun to share the gospel with her.  It is exciting to see Sally inspired to have a relationship with Jesus. Equally exciting, is seeing a new community reaching out as a community.

The Greek IV story was shared by Paula Frances Gay Author Website: http://greekiv.org Author Email: Contact Author Author Bio: PF is currently serving as a campus staff with Greek InterVarsity at the University of Georgia. More Stories by Paula Frances Gay

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