An “attractive” faith?

An “attractional” faith?

A “magnetic” faith?

A “compelling” faith?

How do you talk about the way Jesus is continually drawing us to himself?

Or how would you describe that special, mysterious “something” that you see in others that makes you want to be around them — because somehow it seems to point you to Jesus?

When people pursue Christ, regardless of the cost, it has a way of changing them… marking them… making them different.

It’s hard to describe, but most of us know what I’m talking about… because we’ve seen it before.

But we also know that these kinds of Christians are strangely few and far between.

Given the roles we play in the lives of students, we should hope to be  “attractive” in this way — a reflection of Jesus and the work He is doing in our lives.

And we might all hope to have these kinds of people in our lives — as mentors and friends.

People who help us to see Jesus, and be Jesus, in a world that struggles to know Him.

But before we can live an imitative faith… we have to encounter an “attractive” faith.

Before we can follow, we have to see it… and be drawn towards it.

And the same goes for our students.

This “attractive” quality cannot be manufactured or faked.

It only comes from passionately pursing Jesus.

I want to be attractive in this way.

How about you?

Does your pursuit of Christ reflect your desire to be “attractive”?

This is the question I’m sitting with today.