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Meet Jesse (Power of Insta)

So I was on Instagram a few months back and came across the profile of Jesse McInnes and noticed he was reading a bunch of books that I’ve either read, or was reading or that were collecting dust while waiting on my bookshelf. I decided to message him and ask about his choice of reading material and what inspired him to read and share some of the top quotes and motivational messages from the books he was reading on his social media platform, Instagram. He certainly inspired me to start sharing more of my faith based reading on my social media as well as the day-to-day life of me. 

Somehow, with the mad time difference, we managed to maintain a conversation over a few weeks, talking about God, Worship and many other things and I thought it would be great to ask him a few questions, feature him on my blog and get some self-help or motivational tips from him!

So here goes;
Photo by Jesse McInnes @JesseMcInnes98

How old are you?
19 years young

Where are you in the world?
Sunshine Coast, Australia 

What do you currently do for work?
Entrepreneur and investor.  See my bio here: https://about.me/jessemcinnes 

So, when did you begin your journey with Faith?
Grew up in Christian home, wasn’t until age of 16 I really started to make a commitment decision to live for Christ myself 

Can you remember the first conversation you had about becoming a Christian?
It was a gradual decision, growing up in a Christian home I decided to go against my family tradition and try and prove Christ wrong and evolution right.
After years of trying to prove that and reading everything I could I about evolution, Christianity and religions, it become clear to me that Christ is the true way.

How comfortable are you with sharing your faith, on and offline?
Never used to be but now more confident than ever. I guess that confidence comes with truly knowing deep within yourself that he is the way and you can’t not share that with others.

In your current job, do you feel able to share the gospel or involve God in the work that you do?
Yes I am mostly the CEO a lot of the time and am fortunate to hold a lot of the influence which helps when discussing my beliefs.

What are your views about Social Media being another platform to share the gospel? 
Social media is incredible and needs to be used more by Christians. At the same time it is also a huge platform for people to criticise Christ. Therefore it is more important than ever to stand strong in your faith. Look at Justin Bieber, he has really started to come out about his faith and even in his insta bio has a link to a Hillsong worship song. He has 100 million followers on insta so look at that influence he can have!!

Top Christian book, and why?
The barbarian way by Erwin McManus.  This book reminds us the real call of Christ which is to follow him and live like him and not get caught up in religious activities but to go back to what he said in the gospel.  “Follow me”. It’s all about living an untamed faith.

Most inspiring Bible Verse, and why?  
Roman’s 12:12 - Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
It speaks a lot to me past experience and connects with me 

Your go-to Bible Verse for motivation? 

Do you have any prayer requests? 
Yes: That more people will understand the value and power they have inside of themselves.

Massive Thanks to Jesse for this, keep doing what you're doing and will certainly be praying that prayer! 

BIG LOVE

Matt
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