What Can I Do?

 If your social media feed is anything like mine, than 90% of what you've been seeing and reading yesterday and today, has been about Charlie Kirk. Encouraging challenges, the call to stand united, and the call to not turn back.

But how does that look to you personally? It's all grand to join a cause online, but what does it look like in your personal life? Is there anything you can do?

Here are a few things that I've thought of. Not because I think they're what you need to hear today, but because they're what I need to hear today.

1. KNOW your Bible. I hope we as Christians all read our Bible on a regular basis, but how well do you know your Bible? If a random person asks you what the Bible has to say about the LGBTQ community, or what the Bible says about racial issues, would you have an answer?

This has been convicting me lately as I watch my niece studying for the National Bible Bee, and I remember how hard I used to study my Bible, and how often I used to have actual Bible verses to answer topics instead of just "Well, the Bible says somewhere . . ."

How can we defend our faith if we don't have faith? Romans 10:17 says Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. If you don't have the Word, you can't have faith.

2. Keep inviting people to know God. I know how it is. I have unsaved co-workers, and after a few conversations about God, and they don't show interest, it's easy to just drop it, and stop even mentioning it. 

But if they can bring up their video games every week, because it's important to them, then we can bring up church, and God, because it should be that important to us. Keep inviting people to church. Inviting them to ask questions and to see Christ in you. Keep sharing your faith.

3. Invite hard questions. It's incredibly humbling to have someone ask you a question about your faith, and not be able to answer it, and our pride makes us want to avoid those questions, but James 4:6 says that God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

A few years ago, at camp, I ended up working with a gal who would ask me questions all the time. They weren't all difficult questions, but many of them, I had to say, "I don't have an answer to that, but I'll get back to you after I research it." It was humbling to have to admit I didn't know, but when I got alone with my Bible to study out her questions, I learned more than I'd ever learned when just reading through my daily routine.

Be humble, and invite people to ask you difficult questions even if you're not ready to answer them. Humility is a reflection of Christ, and if you can answer with humility, they may see Christ in you even if you don't have an answer. Then, go get the answer, and come back! 

It's far to easy in life, to start making soft choices, and avoid conflict, but if we can't stand up for our faith, we will never be remembered for our faith. I have no doubt that Charlie Kirk will always be remembered for his boldness to proclaim his faith. Because that was the most important thing in his life. If you died tomorrow, would people remember you as the nice-coworker? Or would they remember you as a person of faith, and be challenged by your life?