Dewayne Rembert, lead paster of Flatline Church at Chisholm and church planting strategist for the Montgomery Baptist Association, urged University of Mobile students to use every opportunity to share the gospel with others.
“You are not our future. You are our present. We need you right now — right now, you are Christian leaders,” he said during the university’s weekly chapel gathering Sept. 18 in Ram Hall on campus.
“The sooner you see yourself as a Christian leader, the more people will come to faith in Jesus Christ.”
Rembert’s journey
Sharing his testimony of growing up in an environment of poverty and drugs, Rembert told more than 500 students, faculty and staff that he was an adult before he truly heard the gospel, after a co-worker invited him to church.
“I was hopeless, without opportunity, because I didn’t know Jesus,” he said.
Rembert said there are many things in culture designed to keep people apart and hostile to one another. But through Christ, we are united in hope and peace.
“Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit, because of what Christ has done for us,” he said.
Rembert is the author of “Flatlined 2 NGauge” and the upcoming book “Daddy, I Still Forgive You.”
He is one of the chaplains of the Percy Julian High School (formerly Lee High School) football team and is completing his theological training at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Rembert and his wife, Leslie, have three children.
The university’s Worship Collective opened the chapel service with a time of worship and prayer. The ensemble is a community of worship leaders and songwriters comprised of students, alumni, faculty and staff that exists to lead UM chapels in genuine expressions of worship.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Kathy Dean of the University of Mobile.
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