I feel like at Exodus, we talk a lot about pursuit.  Pursuing God, pursuing people.  Pursuit is a hard thing.  It’s hard because it needs to be intentional and it needs to be active.

Pursuing relationships with people…not the significant other kind but the friendship kind.

I have in the past couple of months or so started to get to know one of the girls at work more.  Through our conversations, I can’t help but feel like she is looking for something…for something more.  She’s not a Christian but she knows I am.  Sometimes the conversations we’ll have, she’ll just randomly ask me something related to religion.  Sometimes she talks about wanting to find other female friends just to have girl talk.  I don’t think she has anyone she is really close to.  At times I feel like she’s trying to find out more, yet at the same time she’s afraid.  Honestly, I’d be afraid too.

I don’t like mixing personal and professional life together but somehow it happens.  I’ve been trying to get her to come out to our church service.  I invited her to our exodus bbq which she actually came out to!  She was really hesitant about it….not knowing what to expect.  I know exactly how she feels….more on that some other time.

So I guess I can say I am somewhat on a pursuit.  I am pursuing a friendship with her.  To try to get to know her – to show her that we aren’t scary.  I don’t know her past experiences with people, church, or religion but I want her to feel comfortable and welcome.  I want her to be able to be free…because after all, that’s what is cool about exodus.  You are free to do what you want to do.  You want to come, then come.  You don’t, then don’t.  You want to say something, say it, you don’t, then don’t.  Sometimes she says, yeah church people are nice.  Yeah, church people are nice.  I want her to experience that.  I want her to experience the welcomeness, the freedom, and show her that we as a people, genuinely care about her.

So I pray and ask that you pray (if you read this) for her.  Pray that she will be open to new experiences (probably stuff far different than she’s used to), pray for her comfort and that she wouldn’t feel fearful.  Pray for us and me, that we would be openly welcoming, that we would be able to have wisdom to answer any questions she has, pray that she will come to meet a community that is legit, that cares, that she doesn’t have to worry or feel like we’ll judge her.  Pray that she would experience God in a big big way, that God would touch her heart in a way that only He can.  Thanks!