Evangelism - What is good?

When you think of talking to your friends about Jesus, do you ever freeze up? If you're like me, you might wonder how they'll take it - and if the Gospel will even sound like "good news" to them!

Earlier in October, Andre and I went to the Passion for the Nations conference. One of the speakers, James Choung, addressed this issue. He actually wrote a book called "True Story" that expands on this. But for now, I'll share a couple things from his talk that shed some light on sharing Jesus with my friends...

[re]understanding faith intro

Hope you guys can join us this sunday night as we kick off our new message series!

introducing our EPIC blog team...

We've decided to share the blogging love that is overflowing around here so, without further ado, I introduce you to the EPIC blog team known as [drumroll please]... the EPIC blog team!  [see, this is why we need more people writing posts other than me]. 

So anyways, there's four of us and I thought it would be best if we introduced ourselves -

daren lou on the open mic

The other day, I [Chris] had lunch with one of our EPIC students, Daren Lou [a fifth year CSULB student] and I was compelled to have him post some of what God's teaching him.  Enjoy.

You know it's hard to imagine that it has already been 2 months since I came back from China. Hey, if you don't know me, my name is Daren Lou and I was in the college group 2 years ago. GVBC made a huge impact in my life, what fueled my passion to find answers was the need to find responsibility because I knew my previous life of seeking worldly experiences to fill my desires were finite. None of them lasted long and I seemed to be spiraling down, brought down by my own nervous, judgmental personality that seemed to eat away at my life. I recognized it most with my family because I had few friends. My sister kept on attending Church, and it was not until my Uncle Yosh Amano asked me to come to the Men's retreat 2 years ago (2008). The message moved me, especially the book of Matthew, with all the lessons on how to develop the qualities that Jesus modeled as an example to the people he created. I know it was going to be tough, but I never looked back from there. I got baptized after a short time of becoming a Christian, became more involved with college group, went to retreats with my Asian American Christian Fellowship at college, cabin lead, went to leadership camp, and soon I felt God was calling me to test my faith by going to China.