Hill Country Bible Church

I met Sean at a square dance for international students. At the end of the evening, after a couple of hours of dancing, we were chatting and getting to know one another. I mentioned something about church, and he was very interested.

Sean, who is from China, was fascinated by the idea of the American church. I invited him to Austin Hotspots that was the following day, and he came. While we were walking around the food trailer park, the conversation turned to God. To my surprise, Sean knew absolutely nothing about Christianity. He didn’t know about God, Jesus, or the Bible. He didn’t know about worship or pastors or sermons. I was the first Christian he had ever met. I tried to explain (with Andrew Raymund’s help) everything there is to know about Christianity as concisely as possible.

This is no easy feat, and Sean still had questions as our time at the trailer park wrapped up. Sharing the gospel is great no matter whom the recipient is, but with Sean there was something even more special. So many people come to the table with cynical attitudes toward the church, with memories of pain caused by so-called “Christians,” or with stubborn intellectualism that prevents them from even considering a spiritual realm.

With Sean, I got to start from square one and build up to the full message of the gospel. This experience was a huge blessing in my life, and it highlighted the reality that we Christians can’t just sit back and assume that the gospel is making its way around campus and around the globe.

There are people in this city who have never met a Christian. It’s weird, I know, but it’s true. There are people in this city who have never heard the name of the ONE TRUE GOD. There are people in this city who have a distorted and tainted image of Jesus Christ, and we must not be satisfied to leave them that way. We need to be the Church in every part of our lives, whether we are in class, at work, or even square dancing.