Q: Write down the name of someone who served as a role model for you. Then write down the name of someone who might be looking to you now as a role model for their own life. Paul didn’t just share the Good News of Christ, he and his co-workers shared their “own lives” as well. Write down the names of one or two people that God is asking you to invest your life in so that they might know the fullness of God’s love and God’s plan for them.
A: I’ve had lots of role models over the years, but one I like to think about as important besides my parents is my old Sunday school teacher from high school, Dave Moore. He was important to me because he was the biggest influence on me as far as my Biblical intellectual development goes, and he influenced me by how he lived his life. Also he was the first person who said “I will respect you as long as you respect me.” And for four years we respected each other almost every Sunday morning. He made me feel like a real person with real opinions and thoughts, and he taught me how to return to the Bible for an answers to almost every question I have. I don’t know who is looking up to me, I’m sure there is someone out there. My folks say my younger brothers look up to me, but I don’t know how far that goes because they are my brothers. Right now I don’t have a specific list of people that I can share my “own life” with, but I try to share my life with most everyone I meet instead. I think that my desire to be friends with almost everyone I meet goes a long way to showing people God’s love. I think that it is important to befriend people for the sake of gaining friends and growing in relationships and relational skills. I think that doing that shows people God’s love in a real way. I have lots of friends who aren’t Christians and I don’t expect to “convert” or “save” them, but if I can show them changes in my life maybe that will be a way to show God’s love. Alright, with that, I’m out.