give me a person
Posted
January 20, 2009 
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People are not regularly changed by experiences as much as they are by people. If you want to influence someone’s life, don’t give him experiences give him a person.
The disciples did not turn out the way that they did because they had some amazing experiences, but because they experienced all those things with Jesus. The difference was the man, not the circumstances, other people, or surroundings.
Give me a person over an experience any day. People can challenge me, laugh with me, confront me, encourage me, teach me, train me, disciple me, and mold me. Experiences cannot do these things.
Yeah for discipleship! Thanks for sharing Micah!
I am encouraged by all the stories of the disciples being with Jesus 24-7 and watching Him perform miracles and listening to Him teach along the way, and yet they still had to be shown things over and over again. There is hope for this slow to learn, weak faithed man. I want so much to be like Him and to have strong faith and clear direction, but they were constantly with Him and they forgot pretty quickly. We need to be those people for others around us to see and be with that will be the example for them to follow as we follow Christ.