So earlier today I got back from Fall Conference, which is the Blue Ridge Navs annual conference. It was really amazing to get to see several of my friends from STP, It was just such an encouragement to my heart. And while it was definitely draining driving there and back, and never getting to be alone, and being with over a couple hundred other humans, I still loved every minute.
It was definitely a reminder to me of how much I miss my STP friends and the STP life. I got to see three of my closest female friends from the summer (other than my actual team), and that was SO much fun! I loved getting to see Barbara, Annie, and Mikaila! They just encourage me so much, and really just lift my spirits and love me so well. It made me so happy to get to spend time with them and catch up on their lives.
Also, I went to a workshop on discipleship, which was super cool. I listened to a speaker tell me about how to disciple someone, how to find someone to disciple, how to "do life with them," (which is a very Christian-ese thing to say, but I don't know how to say it better). And he reminded us that we should really only disciple those who are hungry for the Gospel, because they're the ones who will "reproduce reproducers," to quote the Navs founder Dawson Trotman. The speaker also said, "No matter how much you want to, even for their sake, you can't make someone do something they don't want to do," which is something that really both encouraged and discouraged me simultaneously about the people I have the potential to disciple. It's encouraging because it no longer puts pressure on me to change their hearts; that's God's job, not mine. It also discouraged me, because I think some of the people I might want to disciple the most really aren't hungry for the Gospel. But I think it's okay, because God will draw them to Himself in His own time, and in His own ways, and all I can do is pray for them.
It was a great, exhausting, fantastic, God-filled Fall Conference!!! :)
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