Being the Perfume of Christ...

2 Corinthians 5: 14- 17, "14But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. 15For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? 17Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God."

What does it mean to be the perfume of Christ? This is our theme this year as we head into Back-to-School activities, we want to enter those campuses with "the fragrance of knowledge of him...the fragrance of life." One of my co-leaders, Joëlle, spoke last night at Students For Christ and presented this theme to the group expounding on the idea of perfume stating that "often we wear perfume not for ourselves, but for others...the fragrance we have can either attract people to us or repel them from us...let us be the channel through which God's fragrance attracts people to Himself."

This year, SFC is poised to, not out of our own ways, methods, or plans, attract people to God because we carry the fragrance of Him to others. We carry that fragrance because we approach him, spend time with him, and because it is he who spreads that fragrance through us. How sweet Christ must smell, and I look forward to smelling His fragrance through our group not only this year but for the rest of our lives as we learn what it is to be His fragrance to a dying earth.