8/9/12 Rachel, Amber late teens
Starbucks. Two young businessmen on laptops. Two teenage girls chatting. I asked businessman #1 - "Excuse me, I
realize you might be busy, but I wonder if I could ask you a question." "Sure,,,what's up?" "I wonder what you think happens after
this life, what do you think comes next?"
He stared at me a few long seconds. "Are you seriously asking me this? What's your angle?" "Well, if there is a life after this
one, and it lasts for eternity, then we will spend a lot more time wherever we end
up than we will here right? So I would
say its a pretty important question, would you agree?" I said this because even if this man didn't
want to talk, at least he will be reminded of the need to consider eternity. He responded "Well, I believe in God and
Jesus and I prefer to talk about these things on Sundays thank you very
much." I received basically the
same reaction from businessman #2, so I moved on to the girls who were busy
chatting. Rachel and Amber both turned out
to have strong faith in Jesus and a good grasp of the Bible. Rachel had just returned from a missions trip
to an orphanage in Nicaragua, and both had a strong interest in sharing their
faith with their friends, though they didn't know where to begin. We talked about this a while and I gave them
some advice, also referring them to www.LivingsWaters.com
for its great training resources in "law and grace" evangelism. I also
told them "One of the benefits of reaching out to strangers like I do is
that it helps prepare me to be able to share my faith with the people I already
know around me" Evangelism, more than probably any other area
of our Christian faith, is something we really need to teach by example. While short-term missions trips are important,
I hope my example will help Rachel to know that we have a mission field all
around us, right where we live.
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