Please include a statement about your saving faith in Christ and when you took that step.
(Please limit your essay to approximately 500 words.)
Throughout my whole life, I grew up in a Christian home with a loving and supportive family that pushed me to know God better. I genuinely accepted Christ into my life at a young age and have enjoyed serving and reading my bible and learning about God. During my sophomore year, God really opened my eyes to the way I had been living for Him. In a lot of ways I was serving God in a way that was comfortable, instead of getting out of my comfort zone to live for God as He has called me to, to die to myself, to take up my cross, and to follow Him wholeheartedly. As I was choosing to live differently, I …show more content…
Coming to college, my first semester was honestly the loneliest time in my life. I had all these expectations of what I thought would happen when I got to college- getting community, having a relationship, getting involved- and it just wasn’t happening. I was in community group at Grace Bible Church but didn’t really have friends and didn’t feel involved. Looking back now, it was a time of my life God used for growth because I came to this point in my relationship with God where I was choosing to want God for who He was, not for what He promised me. Even if I felt completely alone, God was more than enough for me. The next semester I began to really gain community at Grace and become involved in Adopt-A-Building and going with a group to Austin Arms every week to do apartment ministry. Out of choosing to want just Him, God actually brought a lot of those things into my life and in a more full way than I could have every expected. Most recently, I got to spend 3 weeks in Africa, which in just planning and go and finishing through with was a big growing experience. I went on my own never really having flown before and not knowing anyone there. The …show more content…
Through my experience working with people and in missions, I’ve realized the weight of our human need for God. As the result of living in a broken world full of broken, sinful people, life is sure to be messy, to be full of more brokenness. While counseling alone could help individuals work through what they are going through or cope with their situation in life, biblical training that gives the ability to point people to the ultimate solution, Jesus Christ, is invaluable. DTS would equip me to serve children and families by pointing them to the one who can provide healing and mend their
(Please limit your essay to approximately 500 words.)
Throughout my whole life, I grew up in a Christian home with a loving and supportive family that pushed me to know God better. I genuinely accepted Christ into my life at a young age and have enjoyed serving and reading my bible and learning about God. During my sophomore year, God really opened my eyes to the way I had been living for Him. In a lot of ways I was serving God in a way that was comfortable, instead of getting out of my comfort zone to live for God as He has called me to, to die to myself, to take up my cross, and to follow Him wholeheartedly. As I was choosing to live differently, I …show more content…
Coming to college, my first semester was honestly the loneliest time in my life. I had all these expectations of what I thought would happen when I got to college- getting community, having a relationship, getting involved- and it just wasn’t happening. I was in community group at Grace Bible Church but didn’t really have friends and didn’t feel involved. Looking back now, it was a time of my life God used for growth because I came to this point in my relationship with God where I was choosing to want God for who He was, not for what He promised me. Even if I felt completely alone, God was more than enough for me. The next semester I began to really gain community at Grace and become involved in Adopt-A-Building and going with a group to Austin Arms every week to do apartment ministry. Out of choosing to want just Him, God actually brought a lot of those things into my life and in a more full way than I could have every expected. Most recently, I got to spend 3 weeks in Africa, which in just planning and go and finishing through with was a big growing experience. I went on my own never really having flown before and not knowing anyone there. The …show more content…
Through my experience working with people and in missions, I’ve realized the weight of our human need for God. As the result of living in a broken world full of broken, sinful people, life is sure to be messy, to be full of more brokenness. While counseling alone could help individuals work through what they are going through or cope with their situation in life, biblical training that gives the ability to point people to the ultimate solution, Jesus Christ, is invaluable. DTS would equip me to serve children and families by pointing them to the one who can provide healing and mend their