New Creation
New Creation
One of Sarah Clark's best friends is Beth Kempton. Both women were involved in Young Life in high school, but since then, their paths had taken different courses.
Sarah went to Penn State and got committed to Christ through her involvement with the PSU Navigators. Beth went to a different school, later transferred to Penn State, but showed little evidence of the Christian life she claimed to live. Yet God worked it out for Beth to attend the Navigators ski conference in Vermont at the invitation of Sarah.
Beth was clearly moved as she listened to various speakers, and one afternoon, she asked Sarah if they could talk. Missing a workshop, the two women discussed what was keeping Beth from committing her life to Christ, and by the end of the conversation, Beth was a new creation.
"Beth told me she didn't want to be the kind of person who gives their life to God and keeps doing the same things," Sarah added. "I realized Beth thought she had to be perfect to be a Christian. And that night at our banquet, she blew me away when she stood up in front of everyone and told them she had been afraid she couldn't be good enough for God. She said she had given her life to Christ that weekend, and I just couldn't believe it. Now she's like a little kid. She keeps saying, 'I want to tell everybody they need Christ.' God is clearly moving in her life."
