Testimony for Matt Mealey
Hello! My name is Matt Mealey, and I was a student at Colorado University in Boulder through the spring of 2002, where I was fortunate to be involved in Tom and Nancy Miller’s CBF ministry.
Matt Mealey
I was raised in a catholic household, where my knowledge of Biblical stories was great, but my knowledge and love of God was nonexistent. It wasn’t until I was a junior in college that I began to realize that I was spiritually dead. I was invited to a Bible study by some good friends, and over the course of the next few months, I did my best to harmonize what I was reading in the Gospels with my catholic faith. These friends were rejoicing in their salvation by their faith in Christ, and I did my best to pretend like I felt the same way, even though inside I was torn apart. I tried talking to my parents, and they were so uncomfortable about talking about spiritual things that I realized they didn’t even know what they themselves believed; they kept trying to tell me not to worry-that I was a good person. There was a huge void in my life, and I had only recently begun to realize that it was there. I turned to the only source of truth I could find-the Bible. I read in Romans about how all men are sinners, and because of this we are infinitely separated from a Holy God. I knew about Christ’s death on the cross, but I didn’t know that Christ had died for ME.
One night, alone in my room, I confessed to God that I wasn’t the good person everyone believed me to be. I knew that I could do nothing on my own to better my situation, and I felt like the biggest hypocrite in the world. I professed my faith that His son Jesus could do for me what I could never do for myself. Christ’s death and resurrection was the ultimate expression of love of a personal God that desired to have me as His child. Broken, I experienced the spiritual birth that Jesus told Nicodemus about in John 3.
That was six years ago, and since then I have experienced hills and valleys in my walk with God, but He has never left me. God blessed me with a Bible-believing wife two years ago, and in the fall of 2000 we packed our bags for Boulder, Colorado so I could attend graduate school for music. I met Tom and Nancy Miller as they started a CBF ministry here in Boulder. They are sponsored in part by our church, Flatirons Baptist, and I began to come to the Bible studies that they offer for students. I was so fired up watching their love of reaching out to unbelieving students that I would sit with them at their table in the student union as much as I could. Sometimes we had to endure harsh words from cruel people, but more times than that we saw people genuinely interested in knowing more about God. I was also able to reach out to many of my friends in the music department, as seeing me sit at the CBF table would open doors to great discussions with them about the Lord. I thank the Lord for Tom and Nancy Miller and their ministry at CU. Campus Bible Fellowship around the world is a light in a dark place, and I pray that the Lord will use me and my wife in a similar fashion to reach out to those in need of the saving work of Jesus Christ.