Sharing the Gospel with Faith


June 15, 2008 @ 9:41 PM EST | Category: Just Bloggin'

So, most of last month is a blur due to the simple fact of life and so many different witnessing opportunities that trying to remember exactly what happened in those encounters seems a bit hazy. This blog, however, will be about an encounter that we had on June 13, during our bi-weekly P.I.E. outreach.

Stephanie, Mark and I decided to go to Conyers Plaza for our outreach.

On Friday nights the plaza is pretty full with teens and young adults hanging out either waiting for a movie to start or waiting to be picked up by their parents. Some are coming in and going out of the stores in the plaza.

We started out by handing out some tracts to some teens standing around outside an ice cream shop. They took the tracts and walked away. We started walking down the sidewalk and I saw two girls holding hands. I noticed as they got closer one of the girls was a girl that Stephanie, my wife, had shared the Gospel with earlier this year in the exact same place. She was a self-admitted lesbian and was living in rebellion to God. I stuck out my hand with a tract in it and said, "Hey, did you get one of these?" She stuck her hand out and grabbed it. I told her it was a Gospel message and it would tell her how to go to Heaven. She would not make eye contact with us (mainly because I think she recognized us) but also because I think she was convicted about her lifestyle and that we spoke openly to her about her lifestyle and the consequences of her choices previously.

John 3:16-19 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

So we spoke to her briefly and she finally said that she was in a hurry and that she had to leave.

We continued to speak with various people for the next couple of hours, some professing Christians who couldn't tell us what God did for us so that we wouldn't have to go to Hell, others who had never heard the Gospel before.

We approached the local theatre and there were a group of young kids outside the theatre hanging out and talking. We approached them with some giant money tracts and million dollar bill tracts; something to get the conversation started. Two of the guys there recognized us from an outreach we did in September 2007 at the Rockdale County Fair. It was good to see them again. They were asking lots of questions and we got to explain the Gospel and salvation again to them; along with their friends. God is so good that he allowed us to do some follow-up with these two guys. They remembered a lot from what we had talked about at the fair, so that was encouraging.

Many times we never hear or see the people we share the Gospel with twice, unless it is in a concentrated area. Thank God the results are up to Him. All we have to do is plant and water. God gives the increase. I truly believe if our mininstry, or anyones personal evangelism for that matter, were based upon results then we would be discouraged and begin to seek alternative Gospels to produce the results we are looking for.

God is teaching us every day about faithfulness in ministry and trust in His sovereign plan.

Amen!