Ever since I joined my fraternity last January, starting a house ministry has always been on my mind. Being a freshman, though, I didn’t feel like I was capable to be an effective leader in my house. In addition, my house has a very high Jewish population and I can count the number of practicing Christians on one hand. Every so often, though, I would pray for the courage to start a ministry. Two weeks ago, I took my first step.

After attending Greek Conference in Indianapolis back in February, I made a vow to share the word of God with people in my house. That started with having individual conversations with people about God. It didn’t always feel natural, but I have had a handful of great conversations with people about their religious backgrounds and beliefs. Then, I decided to make an announcement during my chapter meeting about wanting to have a time where brothers in the house could come together and talk about religion or any other topic they had on their mind.

I picked Wednesday night during our dinner time to have the discussion. Amazingly, 16 guys showed up. We started by all sharing our religious backgrounds and upbringings. Then, we moved to current beliefs or questions that we have. The discussion flowed form there and we had an hour discussion about religion. A lot of people posed difficult questions, questions I didn’t have answers to. Even though I didn’t have the answers, we had a really great dialogue between all of us.

I know this discussion doesn’t resemble the typical house bible study, but I feel like I need to take baby steps and my house needs to take baby steps before I feel comfortable incorporating scripture. I will keep praying for God to work through me in my house and I appreciate any prayers from people reading this. If you are reading this and are in a similar situation as I was, I would love to talk to you. I still have a lot of work to do, but I feel great about where my house is right now and I think this Spring will be a great opportunity for me to continue sharing the word of God.

The Greek IV story was shared by Todd Siegel Author Website: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1006990874&ref=ts Author Email: Contact Author Author Bio: Todd is currently a freshman at Northwestern University where he is a member of Zeta Beta Tau. He is also involved with Greek InterVarsity on campus. More Stories by Todd Siegel

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