Urban Reformation

As you can tell from the picture, we all looked a little out of it Saturday morning.  From Left to right, Tim Juhnke, Bill Bonham, me, Marie Drown, Frank Drown, and Darrell DeGreve.

This last Saturday morning I woke up early, looked outside, and I saw the beautiful morning sun. Normally I am up earlier than the sun however this morning I was waking as the sun came up, I slept in due to the fact that it has been a long couple of weeks.

I had told a friend of mine Darrell DeGreve ‘s that this particular morning I had hoped to see one of my wife’s uncle’s attend the Biker’s for Christ Conference. Over Easter we had the opportunity to share the Gospel with my wife’s Uncle Charlie, who owns a Harley and loves to ride. He didn’t respond that day, however he called my wife an wanted to talk to her about something the next day. Unfortunately he ended up not calling.

Even though my wife’s uncle passed on coming to the conference, I was assured that I could still attend only owning a mini-van and a few big wheels that the children have for going up and down the street.
Two of the reasons I wanted to attend were, the bikers for Christ, and UrbanReformation have a similar passion. One of their main slogans is,

“Some wish to live within the sound of church or chapel bells; we want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell!”

The heart of Bikers For Christ is to reach out to the uttermost. Darrell DeGreeve has been a friend to me since before I officially attended FCC, in fact he and his Biker’s for Christ crew had much influence in my attending our current Church. He is an evangelist at the heart and desires to see men and women come to know Christ in a real and authentic way.

And Saturday’s conference reminded me of Luke 7:47.

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.” Luke 7:47

The morning started out with a biker who was in a gang up in Detroit, MI. I can’t recall how long he was in the gang he was in but he said he was fourth from the top in charge. His testimony was humbling, and convicting at the same time. He brought up some things we know are true but we seldom take the time to meditate upon. I won’t go into the details of his testimony but the challenge he had for us was twofold, study the word to show yourself approved, and the fact that Christian’s and Christianity is under a microscope. That it is our public witness in which many people claim to be the reason for which they will not ever be Christian. Bill was a pretty rough looking character with a transformed heart in Jesus Christ, and he told us an incredible story of how he saw someone raised from the dead on a Cambodian Mission’s trip, and also of his love and care for a guy whom he went on the trip with who did not know Christ. He spent much of the time witnessing to him and is still praying for him to know Christ. I was moved by his sincerity and you could see this man was changed by God, not on the outside but transformed on the inside.

We had a small break and our pastor from FCC spoke next on “Drift” from Hebrews 2. He recounted how he recently was riding a bike when he went to do a Men’s Conference out of state and it took just a few seconds of not paying close attention to the road and he began to drift away, and could have nearly wrecked. Thankfully this did not occur, but he noted that the only kind of drift to do is away. If we are not being intentional with our walk with God we are drifting. There is no middle ground there’s no drifting toward Christ, thus the stressor on being “Intentional.”

I unfortunately had to cut it short before I got an opportunity to hear the Frank & Marie Drown. I have heard their testimony of the things God did in their life time in their mission to the Head Hunters in Ecuador for thirty seven years, and how God did miraculous amazing things with only their Hope in God to sustain them. I hope to hear the rest I believe it was captured on Video.

All in all this was the Kansas City Chapter’s first Annual Biker’s for Christ Conference and will not be the last. I look forward to more from them in the future, and hearing about what God is doing through this ministry.
May all those who have been forgiven much love as much as these guys do, and go after souls for the time in short, and the time is now!

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