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Our fall evangelism class hit the streets last night and many of us went to the mall to practice what we learned. It was amazing and there was a lot of good encounters. This is only one of them:
John Dykstra and I went to the mall last night with the purpose of soul winning. We prayed that God would direct or steps to His determined appointments – and He did just that.
The first person we came to was a young man of 18 years named Tony. He was working for a store in the mall and his job was to take surveys. I promised him I would take his if he took ours. He said, “You first”. We asked him if he was a good person. He said he was. I asked him by whose standards – he said God’s. I took him through the commandments and he failed miserably. I asked him how he would fair on judgment day and he said not so good – that he thought he could go to hell. He then said the funniest thing: that this very thing had been on his mind that day and he had tried to have a spiritual conversation with a coworker that day but he found no answers to his questions. He told me he was interested in Christianity but his mother had thrown away his bible (not wanting him to become a “crazy religious person”). He told us that we could be the answer to his prayers (that God would give him guidance). So he asked us if he need only to confess his sins in order to go to heaven. He sensed that somehow there needed to be punishment but had no idea about it. We explained Christ and Him crucified to him and he had great joy in that the penalty was paid in full by Christ and the way of forgiveness opened up for him. He wanted to know how he could receive this forgiveness. We explained faith and true repentance to him. He asked us how to enter through this narrow gate (my words). We told him that God hears our prayers and urged him toward prayer. We rushed down to Borders and bought him a bible, gave it to him and gave him key scriptures to read when he got off of work. He wanted us to show him exactly where these verse could be found so there would be no more stumbling around. I recommended to start with Psalm 51 and to pray in a similar way to God but in his own words. He was soooo thankful to us. I gave him my phone number if he needed follow up or had questions. I never seen someone so thankful. It was like offering a glass of water to someone dying of thirst – and then pointing him to an eternal fountain. He had found the treasure he was seeking for.
Please pray for Tony. He was lost, but now he is found.
Brett Burbage
I was waiting in line to vote today and the line was really long. I had brought a book and dropped the kids off at a friends house just in case I had to wait a long time. As I was standing there I realized that this would be the perfect opportunity to witness to some of the people standing in line with me. As soon as that thought came to my mind I started to panic! I started sweating and literally shaking. Then I started coming up with all these excuses in my mind for not doing it right then. Finally I decided to not make excuses, and I pulled out the curved optical illusion tract. It got a couple people's attention, and I went through the wdjd steps. I was so nervous, but I got all the way through it! The one man that I talked with seemed to be convicted by what I said but then he back off really quick. So I just told him to keep the tract and use it on his friends. He wasn't offended but I couldn't really read his reaction very well. So pray that he will think about it
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