Who is your one?
One person, one name, one life—your “one” who you know needs a relationship with Jesus to change the trajectory of their life.
Get that name. Get that face. Commit to it. Write it down on a piece of paper. Stick it in your Bible. Put it on your desk.
The ripple effect of that decision could be beyond what you can even imagine.
Let me give you an example. In 1858, there was a Sunday School teacher in Boston named Edward Kimball. He was concerned about one of his students who worked in a shoe store. Kimball went to where he worked and found him stocking shelves in the back. He challenged him about his relationship with God, and the young man decided to give his life to Christ.
His name was D. L. Moody, who left the shoe business and became one of the greatest Christian leaders of his time. If you have heard of the Moody Bible Institute or Moody Publishing, you know that his legacy continues to this day.
One day Moody was speaking in a church to a man named Frederick Meyer. Meyer was so inspired by Moody’s story and the impact of his Sunday school teacher, that he decided to enter into vocational ministry as well. One day, when Meyer was speaking at a church in Northfield, Massachusetts, a man named J. Wilbur Chapman heard him speaking and gave his life to Christ.
Chapman entered vocational ministry and began mentoring a young baseball player named Billy Sunday, who went on to speak to thousands about Jesus. Sunday was actually once in Charlotte, North Carolina speaking at a series of meetings. Inspired by Sunday’s ministry, a group of men in Charlotte dedicated themselves to reaching the city for Jesus. They brought in an evangelist named Mordecai Ham.
By now, it was the year 1932. A local farmer loaded his pick-up truck with neighbors and brought them to the meeting led by Ham. One of the neighbors was a 16-year-old boy who sat in the crowd every night. On the very last night of those meetings, he gave his life to Jesus.
That teenager was named Billy Graham, who would go on to tell more people about Jesus than any other person in history.
And it all started with one man, Edward Kimball, reaching out to another, who reached out to another, who reached out to another…on and on it went.
The power of one.
