Jesus spoke of the fact that
only those that had “ears to hear” would really be able to truly hear the
truths he was sharing, and today I got a slight glimpse of that. Our crew
rolled out to Orange Coast College in the heart of Orange County, CA. so as to
share truth and offer hope, but there weren’t that many ears passing by us and
so it seemed that there would be not much visual fruit that we would be able to
see. Risch went up first again today, only one person stopped and listened,
after Risch had finished sharing I approached the sole pair of ears and we
began a brilliant 15 min chat. The girl was raised in a Christian home, desired
to be “good”, and at the moment has a girlfriend and is openly embracing her homosexuality.
She desired to be “better” and said that she couldn’t help it as she was born
that way. I commenced to first tell her that being gay is indeed a sin, but so
is heterosexual premarital sex, so is over-eating, so is being grouchy to your
step-sister – I wanted to make it clear that I did not have a vendetta again
her specific sin but that sin is sin and it requires atonement. Without
retracing our conversation, suffice it to say, she listened, “believed” it,
desired to “walk in the light”, and so on, but she just ended with “I am
beginning my spiritual journey and trying to figure things out and this was a
good conversation.” No doubt I wanted her to give up her ways right there, but
I have to remember that it is indeed a process sometimes in regards to hard
ground being broken, making a bad soil a good one, then planting, then watering
and re-watering existing seed. I do hope to see her again.
A
little while later a young lady walked up to Risch and said “I heard you
talking about Jesus, can you tell me about Him?” This girl was a Muslim from
Egypt and was engaged to a “Christian” American guy, she said that whenever she
asked her fiancé what Christianity is all about that he just kind of changes
the subject as he clearly doesn’t know what its all about. It really is sad
that so many people, especially here in America, embrace Christianity just
cause its what their parents did. I once heard it said that “What one
generation believes, the next generation assumes, and then the following
generation dismisses”, and it seems we are at an overlap of the final two. If
you were to ask someone, “what is the gospel in two minutes?” I really don’t
know how many people could tell you, and this is something that I especially
would like to help show people. I don’t want people to just up their church
attendance, or start being nicer to people, or to start listening to Christian
music, but I want them to be embrace a new life, a new king, and a new kingdom
that permeates every area of our short lives. Anyways back to the girl, Risch
eventually called me over and she and I began to speak and I just told her the
basic story of the people of Israel and then Jesus while kind of highlighting
different areas between Christianity and Islam. She was kind, didn’t speak much,
but was very interested and it was super legit. I think the most amazing thing
was that she wanted a Bible and so we gave her one - this really excites me as
it takes it out of my hands and my speaking and my eloquence and my teaching
capabilities and puts it in the hands of the Spirit as she reads the Word –
indeed she is in good and capable hands.
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