Tonight we are starting our series "This is My Story." This series features the testimonies of our young adult leaders... We will be watching about a 10 minute video of their testimony and then each leader will be on stage following their video and share a Bible passage that pertains to their story and an application that our students will be able to relate with... While taping these videos it is amazing to me the amount of information you have no idea about someone until they open up their lives to you... Each one of these videos has been completely different than I ever would have imagined. Each of these leaders has gone through things that I have never even thought about happening in my own life. Each has a story far different from any of the others. Each has specific stories that have made them who they are now. Each story different. Each story valuable to who they are. But each story ends the same... Each of our leaders are where they are now because God has gotten ahold of their lives and changed the path they were on and placed them on the "God Path." God is the one thing each of these leaders have in common. They didn't get in contact with God the same way, God didn't impact them all the same way, they didn't experience God the same way... but they all know the same God and they all love Him and know He loves them. What's amazing to me is how a God that has been around forever (which is hard to imagine to begin with) impacts the lives of so many different people... not in the same way, the same place or the same style but still the same God changing lives. I can't even begin to think about all of the awesome things God has done for me... I've told my testimony so many times that I can't even remember all of the bits and pieces anymore. I can remember times when I was super down and thought things couldn't get any worse and the same God provided for me. The same God that changed the lives of these leaders changed my life... and probably your life too... and the lives of a bunch of people you know... and more people they know... all different people... still the same GOD. When thinking about this series (This is My Story... TiMS for short), I remember my favorite hymn "Blessed Assurance." The line in the chorus says, "This is my story, this is my song..." I could sing this song in a room full of people all with very different stories and different songs, but what unites us all is that God is a part of our story. And if God is not a part of your story, I guarantee you, your story is missing some key plot points... Whatever your story is, wherever you found God, or He found you, or however your life has been changed, be thankful that the one thing common to SO many people's story is the same GOD that you know. But don't forget the people who have yet to include that same God in their story... maybe you should tell them.