If you’ve seen the movie “God’s Not Dead”, you know the storyline. A college student finds himself in a class with a professor who asks his students to admit that God is dead. For this student, that’s simply too much to ask. He knows God’s not dead and he is not willing to back down from that truth. He spends the next few weeks building his position that God’s not dead. In the end he gets his professor to admit that he hates God so the student asks “how can you hate somebody if they don’t exist”?
“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” – Romans 1:20
We can see God all around us and he is working here on earth today through his Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit of God is proof of a living God!
In DR Congo, there is no exception to this. It has been amazing to see Delphin accept Jesus as his Lord and savior and amidst his pain and struggles still desire to be a pastor some day. I see the Spirit working in Dr. Baudry who volunteers his time as a doctor to children who have no way to pay him back and through Papa Dido and the Joyce Medical Center where no one is refused medical care because they cannot pay for it.
There is another young man we’ve met in DRC who can testify of a living God. His name is Eclair Mbumba and the Lord found him when he was seeking to further his english speaking skills. Now he has surrendered his life completely to the work that God has called him to. He has a passion for the “young church” in DRC – those students who are in his generation and desperately need to have their lives transformed fully to the work of the Lord.
You see when you have the knowledge that there is a living God who loves you so much that he would lay down his one and only Son for us, to pay for our sins, who died on the cross, rose again, and who lives among us today through his Spirit, how can you keep from sharing that love with the people around you who need to hear it? It’s the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it truly is good news that God is not dead!
If you want to hear more about Eclair’s story you can listen to his testimony on the Solid Rock podcast.