RADICAL CALL

Reid, an evangelism professor at Southeastern Seminary, closed out the teaching segment of the SBTC Student Evangelism Conference by telling students that following Christ “is not about how risk free and safe” one can be. Christianity is a movement, not an institution, Reid said.

“God has created you ? to be part of something way bigger than anything we could come up with on our own,” he told the more than 2,000 students in a sermon from the Matthew 4:18 account of Jesus calling Peter and Andrew to follow him.

The SEC theme?”Campus Revolution”?was intended to encourage students to be missionaries on their middle and high school campuses this fall.

“In its heart, in its essence, it’s a movement,” Reid said of Christianity. After asking students what they would do on Sunday, many responded aloud, “Go to church.”

“No you’re not. You are the church,” he said. “When you show up at school and you sit in that class, you are the church.”

Reid said it is easy to live faithfully on Sunday but more difficult during the week when students are surrounded by unbelievers.

He posed a question to the girls in the audience: What if the boy of your dreams came up to your locker and stated, “I want to be your guy. ? I just want you to agree on one thing: Let’s not tell anybody.”

“What would you think about a guy like that?”

Christians who never mention their faith in Christ are similar, Reid said.

Being a Christian “doesn’t mean you have Jesus in your life. It means he is your life.”

“Are you willing to follow a dangerous Jesus?” he asked.

Reid told the students of how he and a buddy started the first Fellowship of Christian Athletes club in his Alabama high school and then a Christian club. Two years later the Christian club was the school’s largest student organization, and FCA was second.

He warned the students, however, against depending on their own strength to win their schools for Christ. “Let God make it happen,” Reid said, through students praying, working and loving their classmates.

There are more teens in the United States than ever before, which creates an unprecedented opportunity, Reid said.

“If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you are a missionary,” Reid said.

Students also heard from Brad and Misty Bernall, parents of martyred Columbine student Cassie Bernall; evangelist Clayton King; Scott Grissom of Campus Revolution; and music from Salvador, Starfield, and Shane & Shane.