I became a Christian on an August Thursday night, in the dark, in a tent, in a farmer's field in Cornwall. Although I had grown up in a Christian home, where I had heard all about Jesus and gone along to church pretty much every Sunday of my life - I knew on that night that I had a choice to make. I knew in my head that Jesus had died on the cross to save me from my sin - but did I want to respond to God's love for me and follow Jesus?
The next morning I went to speak to the man who had been doing all of the main talks at this young people's camp, to tell him that the night before I had become a Christian. I had decided that yes - I did want to respond to God's love for me. He got out his Bible and turned to Romans 10:9 - if you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
He wanted me to be confident in what happened. He knew that there would be times in my life when I would question whether or not I was a Christian. When the enemy would bring doubts and try to sabotage what God was doing. When I would question God - maybe even wonder whether there was a God. And he wanted me to remember this choice I had made and what that meant.
And for those of us who are following Jesus, Romans 10 also brings the challenge of telling others. We can't force people to believe anything, but how will they hear about Jesus unless someone tells them - and who's going to tell your friends if it's not you?
Here's the short video that we watched on Sunday.
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