When Miracles Are Common and Pizza Theology

  A student shared this at our most recent Thursday Night Fellowship and I thought it was so beautiful that I wanted to share it with you. "In Focus, Miracles are happening all the time. People are becoming saved, like I was a year ago, through this community, and equally miraculously people are becoming more like Jesus, like I'm still learning to do. But God is using this community to bring about those miracles. And I know that this all can feel common to us, especially those of us who have been around for a while, but if we are in a community where the miraculous is common, we should thank God for that community."

That was shared by a student named Josh Krause who I have the pleasure of studying the bible with over the duration of this school year. I have been so encouraged by his willingness to keep learning about the grace of God and respond by living out of that reality. And I was doubly encouraged when he shared such a beautiful and praise filled sentiment with the rest of our college students. 

Josh is the guy in the back row second from the right with the curly hair and bright smile. This is a picture of his core, who are great friends together in the Lord.

Another thing to praise God for is our most recent Pizza Theology. Over 500 college students from all across DFW came to learn about the bible. Not only about what is in it, but what the  bible itself is. How was it formed? Who wrote it? What do different translations offer us, and does the fact that there are differing translations make the bible untrustworthy? What makes a book canon? Who makes those choices? What do the words God-breathed, inspired, or authoritative even mean and how was God working with humanity to bring it all about? If that feels like a lot for college students to wrestle with, it is, but I think it's so important for college students to experience those questions and historical Christianity's responses to those questions now, before they encounter them from the voice of a critic. I was so encouraged to see 500 plus college students eager to learn more about this collection of texts that we call scripture and to see God maturing young men and women in how they both understand and respond to God's word.

Thank you for helping to provide a community of learning for so many young disciples of Jesus! I can't thank you enough. Also here is an obligatory picture of our daughter after I decided to do her hair for the day.