12/14/11 Jose, about 30
In an age of information overload, what is the most important part of the Gospel message?
I
found Jose, a businessman, working on his laptop at a McDonald's. I
said "Excuse me, I don't mean to bother you but I'm wondering if you
have a few minutes for an interesting question?"
My question
about his views on eternity led to an hour-long conversation, which
ranged from hearing his different and far-fetched theories about the
afterlife to considering the implications if what the Bible teaches is,
in fact, true.
Jose had a lot of questions and insights along
the way. In the end he came to a mental agreement of his need for
forgiveness on judgment day. He described his belief in God (and, by
extension, his need for forgiveness) as 50/50, so the heartfelt
conviction didn't seem to be there.
Toward the end of our
conversation I began to feel like this was information overload; we had
covered so much ground and the truths I shared didn't have much time to
soak in. I felt like sharing the good news of salvation might be giving
him easy and trite answers to questions he hadn't yet formed in his
mind, but I also didn't want to just share the bad news of God's
judgment of his sin without telling him the good news of God's grace in
Christ.
What to do?
I told him about Jesus. I have to
believe that of all we talked about, God will bring to mind exactly what
He wanted Jose to hear.
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