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Something great… – Was Großartiges…

Veröffentlicht in head in the sky von antsche am April 19, 2007

Ping? Hey! I have to share these news: SOMEONE GOT SAVED. Someone became a child of God. Someone gave his life to Jesus. Woooohooooo, there’s a big party in heaven!!! And me I’m in the state of jumping and shouting for joy since Sunday… So let me tell that story very briefly from my perspective. Yet, I hope, my former good old friend and now new brother is gonna blog something about his new life as well.

I remember it started off with us being classmates at school from the age of ten til nineteen… well, actually it started with our moms being classmates before. Anyway, somewhere during these years the Lord got me. And though we were creating the most hilarious stuff together like videos and cakes, he’s never been sort of a person easy to evangelize or even to discuss about God with. After school I moved to Halle and he absolved alternative service in France at a catholic institution. Next thing I remember is my best friend and me praying for God to encounter him there in this kind of Christian institution at the time when he was leaving. And I was not putting too much faith in that, thinking „a catholic institution, well…“. The telephone calls from France were like „uuuhh, I can’t stand them burning incense all the time as the service is held…“. Back in Germany the calls suddenly went „I met someone from Campus Crusade for Christ at the cafeteria and I’m gonna meet him again next week to talk about God and life and to ask all my questions“. I went „How cool!“ thinking „What in the world happened with this „leave me alone with uncomfortable God-topics“-guy?! Praise God!“ Finally March, the decision, the date to be in April, but yet he wanted „the microwave oven to do a PING!“ (I’m just quoting, don’t mind his strange metaphors). Well, last weekend from Friday to Sunday RPMI Halle had a healing crusade in Freiburg, which is in the south west corner of Germany, and where he (surely not accidentally;)) lives. He visited the programme. God touched him. Mighty miracles happened like someone getting up from the wheelchair. This was more than the long awaited „Ping!“ Isn’t God awesome and good and perfect and kind and… Aaaahhh! I’m amazed. Let’s keep going after God…

Hey! Ich muss euch diese Neuigkeit wissen lassen: JEMAND WURDE ERRETTET. Jemand wurde ein Kind des allerhöchsten, liebevollsten, mächtigsten, wahren Gottes. Jemand hat sein Leben Jesus gegeben. Wooooohooooo, es gibt ‘ne Riesenfete im Himmel!!! Und ich befind’ mich im Zustand des Springens und der Freudenschreie seit Sonntag… Also lasst mich die Geschichte mal kurz aus meiner Perspektive erzählen. Dennoch hoffe ich, dass mein ehemals guter alter Kumpi und jetzt neuer Bruder in Christus auch was über sein neues Leben bloggt.

Ich erinner mich, es fing alles damit an, dass wir in eine Klasse gingen seit wir 10 Jahre waren… Eigentlich, um genau zu sein, fing es schon damit an, dass unsere Mamas in eine Klasse gingen. Egal. Jedenfalls irgendwann hat der Herr mich dann erwischt. Obwohl wir die verrücktesten Sachen zusammen kreiert haben, wie Kuchen und Videos, war er nie jemand, der leicht zu evangelisieren, nicht einmal jemand, mit dem über Gott zu diskutieren war. Nach der Schule bin ich nach Halle gezogen und er ging nach Frankreich, um in ‘ner katholischen Einrichtung seinen Zivi zu machen. Das nächste, woran ich mich erinner, ist, dass meine beste Freundin und ich gebetet haben, als er ging, dass Gott ihm dort in dieser Art christlichen Einrichtung begegnet. Aber ich hab nicht viel Glauben dareingesetzt und dachte „naja, ‘ne katholische Einrichtung…“. Die Anrufe aus Frankreich waren ungefähr so: „uuuh, die mit ihrem Weihrauch verbrennen die ganze Zeit im Gottesdienst…“. Zurück in Deutschland wandelten die Anrufe sich plötzlich folgendermaßen: „Ich hab jemanden von Campus für Christus in der Mensa kennengelernt und treff mich nächste Woche wieder mit ihm, um über Gott und die Welt zu reden und alle meine Fragen loszuwerden“. Ich: „Wie cool!“ und dachte „Was um alles in der Welt ist mit diesem „Lass mich in Ruhe mit unbequemen Themen über Gott“-Typen von früher passiert!? Preis dem Herrn.“ Schließlich März, die Entscheidung, der Termin im April, aber er wollte immer noch gerne, dass „die Mikrowelle PING! macht“ (Ich zitiere. Nicht von seinen ungewöhnlichen Metaphern stören lassen). Nun letztes Wochenende von Freitag bis Sonntag hatte RPMI Halle eine Heilungsevangelisation in Freiburg, welches in der süwestlichsten Ecke Deutschlands liegt, und wo er (sicher nicht ganz zufällig;)) wohnt. Er war bei einer der Veranstaltungen. Gott hat ihn berührt. Wunder sind passiert, jemand stand aus dem Rollstuhl auf. Das war mehr als das langerwartete PING! Ist Gott nicht gewaltig, und perfekt, und freundlich und… Aaaahhh! Ich bin überwältigt. Lasst uns weiter Gott nachlaufen…

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  1. ruthbloem sagte, am April 22, 2007 zu 11:51

    praise God! Amen!!

  2. GONG! sagte, am April 23, 2007 zu 3:54

    Counterstatement – Gegendarstellung! :-)

    Soon… there’ll be an exact description of my way to the LORD on my blog… but first of all… I have to tell it to my family, because I don’t want them to get to know it via BLOGGER!

    But please let me comment some statements of my beloved best friend and sister ANTSCHI:

    Yes, we did a lot of crazy stuff together… but you know… maybe we didn’t discuss very often about God and Faith but sometimes we did… perhaps I payed more confidence to another beloved sister – Küttü! Anyway… I’d like to point out that I am not a superficial boy, that is not asking quenstions… maybe I just kept them in my heart… but I may add that Christians have always been around… so that Faith was nothing unthinkable.

    Nevertheless I have to admit that first and foremost we just did the most awesome and hilarious things together… like also creating funny speeches and Birthday Songs… *rofl* You know, I spent a lot of time with doing nonesense… but don’t we have to be stupid sometimes, in order to get more serious afterwards.

    With Antschi – for instance – I need at least 2 hours of making fun and telling funny little „Petits Partages“ before getting more profound.

    I really think that the presence of Antschi and Küttü (and all the other cool Christians during my youth) has maybe been an early indication. Then of course this fabulous year in France, where I just saw that living with God is possible… even in a catholic organisation. I recognized all the beautiful things that happen by ginving his life to Jesus… you know… there were so many wonderful experiences I could quote. Maybe I just realized that being a Christian does not only – or not at all- mean rules, laws and bondages.

    There were so many „hazards“ on my way… „The Arche of Jean Vanier“ in France is surely one of them.

    Quotation: The telephone calls from France were like “uuuhh, I can’t stand them burning incense all the time as the service is held…”

    -> You know, how I am… I’m making fun of everything and everyone…(maybe I will have to work on that)… that was IRONY… I meant that with humility and love! :-)

    Another quotation: I went “How cool!” thinking “What in the world happened with this “leave me alone with uncomfortable God-topics”-guy?!

    -> I was never like this… Aischy surely meant this with a little bit of irony, too. You know, Aischy was not invading me with „uncomfortable God-topics“ as well! ;-) -

    Anyway: When I returned to Germany I got an appartment in Freiburg (another hazard) together with a student of Isreal. ;-) Then I met this wonderful guy in the cafeteria and we just started talking of God and Faith every week… and I was finally able to ask all my questions, that occupied me. And so I also started calling Aischylos regularly (sometimes until 5 o’ clock in the morning… also talking about cakes! *lol* „Lass mich in Ruhe!“) Furthermore there was this healing conference here in Freiburg of Antje’s community in Halle! You know… it was more than the expected PING it was a GONG… and there was no denying anymore…! I was just sooooo overwhelmed… I don’t know… eveything was so perfect!

    Voila, voilaaaaa… and then finally in march I took the decision to give my life to Jesus! The cool guy named Anzee was with me and it was just amazing- by the way: we took a glass of Martini afterwards… bon, voila! Tomorrow it’ll be one week that I am reborn…. YEAH…. praise the LORD!

    I’m so happy!

  3. Antje sagte, am April 23, 2007 zu 4:35

    Thanx for your comment, my dear:-P and in English…uhh, what happened to this francophil guy??? *jk*

    Countercounterstatement:
    1. I didn’t say you were superficial and not asking any questions. Did I say that? But it was not easy to get these things to the surface, they were very well hidden… maybe not for kütü, but for me at least…

    2.[mentioning stinky incense]…“I meant that with humility and love!“
    That’s your best one throughout the whole comment…

    3. The impression of the “leave me alone with uncomfortable God-topics”-guy was created by someone very apparently switching from usually being very talkative to becoming a passive listener whenever the topic got „christian“…
    That indicates, that I’m not necessarily claiming you were not interested at all, but somehow hard to reach…

    That’s it for now. I’m happy for you:)
    Looking forward to „Your own“ story…
    Hugs and… no,no,no! no kisses. *g*

    Yours „leave me alone with uncomfortable Cake-topics“-girl :D

  4. val ward sagte, am April 28, 2007 zu 2:02

    let us pray for our Christian faith, that we receive each person as Loved by Our Father, and please pray for the Unity of Christians in a divided world.


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