Treasure…..Found….
04 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
So our first college wide Treasure Hunt was an outstanding success…we had 15 people, 11 of whom have never treasure hunted before! And they were bold as could be!
If you have not experienced a treasure hunt its basically a tool we use to share the Gospel. We meet before hand, ask God for a treasure map. So for example “God who do you want us to find tonight, give us names, places, needs, clothing, anything” then we write down what he tells us and go and find those people and tell them basically God told me to come find you…here you are on my list…then we love them as best as possible…which usually entails sharing how much JC loves them….
So two fun stories from the night. The first one, was in the first 5 minutes. I was with two people that had never done anything like this before and so they were slightly nervous to say the least…well we walked by this bar and one of the guys noticed basically everything on his list. Well about 100 yards past the guys…he was like I gotta go talk to these guys. So we walk up to this bar with outdoor seating and there was a bench outside right by the fence. So he walks up and just starts talking to them from behind the 4 ft fence. He had blue shirt, a bandana and joseph on his list, and of the six people sitting there 4 of them had blue softball type jersey’s on, one guy had a bandana and the other guy’s last name was joseph! So we basically tell them that God sent us here to them and asked if they needed anything…and after the inital shock of how did you know my name wore off, we ended up talking to them for 10 minutes or so…and while none of them opened up their lives to us or expressed any real needs…we were able to tell them that God really likes them and they actually received it, said thank you for stopping! it was awesome!
another cool story is that we were walking through a parking lot heading toward campus and asked two guys walking toward us if their name was Tim (because I had Tim on my list) and they were like no but were going to meet Tim right now. And we were like sweet where? and they said Qdoba which is the place that the girl with me had on her list! So we ask if we can go with them and end up hanging with them for like 30 minutes they introduce us to Tim, and unfortunaltly none of them were super hungry for JEsus we were again able to tell them that God thinks they are sweet and invited them to Lifegroup.
The crazy thing that I noticed from all my interactions from the night is that generally when I have done this people have been turned off by me, or by the remark of Jesus or church. Well this night it seemed like everyone we talked to…especially the two interactions above people were genuinely blessed that we stopped and engaged them. It was like they actually liked us BECUASE of JEsus!!! which is crazy! But hey we have been praying both for favor on ourselves as well as just the reality that the church is the best thing happening in Fort Collins….
Boo Yah! its true!!! HA!!!!!
ps you can pray for our church this Friday night…we are doing a church wide treasure hunt…
