A Lutheran does 40 Days of Purpose

Chapter 37: Sharing Your Life Message

This chapter sums up our spiritual journey and allows us to organize it to serve Christ. I find that I don’t read this chapter and think about it as much as I work this chapter again and again. I have written in the margins my story of how I came to know Jesus. My personal spiritual journal, not this one, contains my life lessons. I will admit that I am surprised by my passion for the church. I love it so dearly that sometimes I take control of its future away from the Holy Spirit. This is my spiritual battle, my fears must be overcome by the perfect love of Jesus. Finally, my life has been about the Good News.

One aspect of Warren’s religious experience we Lutherans gloss over is conversion. I have come to realize that we take Jesus’ relationship with us for granted when we think we have grown up in the faith and haven’t had a conversion experience. Perhaps we think the experience has to sound like Paul’s or the typical evangelist. This is not true. As Lutherans we believe that everyday is a conversion experience. We start each day remembering our baptism. We also have crossroads in our lives. Places where the Holy Spirit puts a choice before us. Not just at each one but down the road when we have made many choices for the wrong reason, the Holy Spirit brings us to our senses. We realize that the basis of our choice wasn’t as noble or ethical as we thought. God has not been at the center of our lives. When we change our mind and decide to accept Jesus as the sole owner of our heart and passions that is a conversion. God has a party for us in heaven, we ought to go once in a while.

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