Birthdays and General Studies

So, I figured I needed to complete a blog before moving from childhood to adulthood, turning the big 18.

For some reason, I feel like once thursday the thirteenth comes along this week, Becky Owens will have a whole different persona, that I probably will no longer be referred to as 'Bowens' or get away with being late to lessons, and everywhere else. I feel like Becky Owens will no longer exist, and Rebecca Owens will take her place for the rest of my life. Haha! I wonder if anybody else felt like this when turning 18? I'm both excited at the prospect of having no limits in life, and extremely scared of not having an excuse to act like a total idiot for the best part of every day. At the same time of being excited, I'm clinging on to my youth for dear life! Once I hit 18, it'll feel like a couple of days till I'm turning 30. AHHH!

Anyway, back to the main point of my post today. A brilliant preacher in my church, (probably one of the best I have ever heard) Frank, likes to use really swish videos that make an impact. Just from being at various different events of the same topic, I have seen one of his videos three times.  Unfortunatley I can't find it, but I'm sure the onyl four people reading have seen it already, hahaha. (that was a joke at the lack of people who view my blog, HOWEVER, these are the people I care about, so it's ok). Anyway, the video displays loads of facts about the decline of youthin churches, and the shocking figures of what the youth of today turn to instead. Drugs, Alcohol, Sex, Abuse. Four not brilliant words.

Today I had a general studies resit exam, and even though I have no need for general studies, and personally believe it is the most pointless thing known to education, maybe even mankind. Despite this, I was pretty glad I was made to resit this exam, as hopefully there will be a converted examiner in the UK, that would be brilliant indeed. I was also pretty glad, because like my blogs, it was a great realisation moment when I thought, wait, to this examiner, I'm a full on passionate evangelistic christian, but am I living that out?

The answer is, I certainly am not. You see, in this exam I used many of the facts that were on that video, that in the 1920's,  for every 100 young people in the church, today we have 9. Another interesting fact, if every christian in the world brought one person to God every year, then that person brought somebody to God, it would only take 32 years for not only a comlete christian country, a complete Christian world! It's a TINY part to play. One person, brought to God, a year, would see a changed world.

So, this year, I'm making it my aim to bring at least one person to God. Have someone in mind, pray for them every day, and hopefully before 2012 they will know God personally and intimatley. After all, you might only have to do it once if the world actually does end in 2012! I'm not about praying for friends either, I pray for my friends, but I do not specifically pray for one person and concetrate on bringing them to places in which they can experience God for themselves. This is much more effective. And I think as Christians, this has to be our aim, otherwise, how can we ever really be living out the word? So make it your aim too, it's not too late to have a new new years resolution, we still have 11 months and 19 days left..