People and their stories
Anybody who has been reading these blogs knows that my life very recently has made a drastic change for the better. I have had an encounter with the reality of a relationship with The Lord and it has revolutionized everything about me. Have you ever had something like that happen to you? Don’t you just want to tell everybody? Your friends and family, the guys behind the counter at Starbucks – But do you always tell people?
I think it is rare to find a person that does not have one of these stories, but most people think things like, “My story is just like everyone else's” or “It takes too long to tell” or “People don’t want to know that stuff about me”. They never tell their story unless you through them in front of audience to give their testimony.
At Women of Faith, I have seen thousands upon thousands of women become Christians because the speakers from stage tell their stories of how God wooed them out of their junk with such brutal honestly you can’t help not being moved. For me the biggest place that I see Jesus in my world is in other people’s stories. The power of story is so amazing.
Here is my point. I think that this the biggest mistake that we make when interacting with one another. Never really honestly connecting. Talking about superficial nothingness until we are blue in the face because it makes us tired to think about getting into a deep conversation.
So tell your story every chance you get. You will never know whose life you will change.
Ask people about their stories. You never know who is just busting to tell you something that happened to them and you never know how it could change you.
And thanks to Jeremy who fearlessly had a deep conversation with me this weekend and reminded me of all this. Your story changed me.
I think it is rare to find a person that does not have one of these stories, but most people think things like, “My story is just like everyone else's” or “It takes too long to tell” or “People don’t want to know that stuff about me”. They never tell their story unless you through them in front of audience to give their testimony.
At Women of Faith, I have seen thousands upon thousands of women become Christians because the speakers from stage tell their stories of how God wooed them out of their junk with such brutal honestly you can’t help not being moved. For me the biggest place that I see Jesus in my world is in other people’s stories. The power of story is so amazing.
Here is my point. I think that this the biggest mistake that we make when interacting with one another. Never really honestly connecting. Talking about superficial nothingness until we are blue in the face because it makes us tired to think about getting into a deep conversation.
So tell your story every chance you get. You will never know whose life you will change.
Ask people about their stories. You never know who is just busting to tell you something that happened to them and you never know how it could change you.
And thanks to Jeremy who fearlessly had a deep conversation with me this weekend and reminded me of all this. Your story changed me.
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