A New Believer at Peru State Is A Missionary Immediately

At Peru State College this week I was waiting for the band to finish practicing, and ended up talking to a freshman named Piper who was also waiting.

We were small talking about how things are going at PSC when Piper casually mentioned that she had the privledge of leading a friend to Christ today. I asked how that happened and Piper told how her friend had been coming to Campus Crusade meetings for the past month. Today Piper took her friend up to the cemetery and shared the gospel with her (I guess the cemetery is one of the coolest spots in Peru).

After the meeting started, to my surprise they introduced Piper to share her testimony. She shared of growing up with a Jewish background, and living in foster homes, and Boys Town. When she came to Peru State this past fall, and started to coming to Campus Crusade meetings. In September Piper made a decision for Christ at a retreat, and her life changed.

The amazing thing to see is that after Piper came to Christ this year at PSC, she immediately became a missionary to her friends. That is right out of the pages of the Bible: (In John 9:1-41 Jesus heals a blind man and once he had received his sight he immediately went home and told his neighbors about what Jesus had done in his life. In John 4:1-42 Jesus speaks with the Samaritan woman who immediately goes into town and brings back half of the town to meet Jesus. Acts 16:14-15 tells of Lydia coming to faith in Christ, and the next thing we know her whole household is being baptized.)

Sometimes I see a flawed mindset in Christian communities that goes like this: once a person comes to Christ they need to leave their friends and ‘worldly’ influences, be built up in their faith for a time, then go back to those loved ones to share Christ with them.

I get pumped to see college students who come to Christ, then turn around right where they live and lead their friends to Christ. A new believer is a missionary immediately! That rocks.

-Craig Johring