Just an ordinary day on the train...
Okay so after my last week on Evangelism I had a break through on the weekend. My saturday plans fell through so I had the whole day off and so I wnet for a walk with my usually walking friends. While walking I say a man who had a money box around his neck and a sign around his neck that all i could see was the word cancer...I asked my firend if they thought he knew God and they were kinda shocked by my question i said that i needed to talk to him so we did and I found out he was a Christina and had been in a car accident leaving himcrippled and he was also sepeerated form his family we were abel to pray for him. This gave us much encouragement and so we then actually prayed and asked god to put someone in our way that needed to hear from us to be encouraged or have a chance to get to know God. We met some other men and they were christians as well we also saw a woman who was obviously in povery and she was sitting eating her apple and my frined felt me needed to talk with her we found out she was a Christian but has a bad back and her isster had a bad knee...by then end of the walk we had talked and encouraged and prayed for three Christians...it was very encouraging!
I then had planned to go on a Train with a fellow YWAMer and he was going to preach and we would be available for anyone who wanted prayer or who would receive the call to give their life to Christ. I was rather intimidated but encouraged after the wallk. We began by going to the prayer room on base and 'soaking' with musics in the glory of God basically meditating and praying and stiring up our spirit for the task ahead of us...
It was crazy I am serious this black African from the Congo was pacing up and down the traing prreaching the gospel telling stories form the bible and people wer elistening to him even the children were listening. You see expressing your Christina faith in South Africa is very acceptable andd actually on the weekends expeccted the trains would be full of 'preachers'. I again spoke witth three poeple and prayed for them on our trip to cape town and back
jeremiah the preacher, did lead a man who was about 18 in a wheelchair who said a prayer to ackowledge his sins and to ask Jesus into his life and took a bible home with him that he said he would have to hide from his muslim parents.
You see Evangelism is not as scary as it sounds and in fact as a Christian why would I not want to share what I have ansd the access to freedom that I have so I realized that even by finding christinas to encourage along my evangelistic day it was vbery fruitful for me to step out of my comfort zone anbd this has given me more confidnce on my weekly local outreach where wwe go to talk to prostitutes to share wtih them what 'freedoom'could look like for them!
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19
It must be very positive for you to be like James and John - stopping along the way to talk to people about Jesus - bless you as you walk in HIS way.
Keith :0 xxoo
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Dear Justine
Just mailed you but it diappeared on my screen for some reason, hope it found its way to you anyway--- if not I hope that Jesus gives you the message Himself.
Never stop explaining why you have hope in Him, just feel free to express who He is to you at all time. love, Klara
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dearest Justine,
Always, always--- is a good time to tell people what you believe and why.Even if they do not want to understand, accept,believe---- or disagree--- you can share what you believe and why, just decide to share with them what has made the difference in your life--- and stick to it.I have found it amazingly amazing, how people will say something, wait for your response-- and when you tell them what you feel, think--- really think about what you had to say--- and why--- and have a response, this, to let you know you have given them a thought. Two days ago, 2 men entered into the store with a sales tactic, and one of them used the word enlightenment----- I asked what he meant using this word, explaining that I was enlightened by above--- by Jesus---- and told him that this word was used quite often by people wanting to exploit others in spending lots of money by so called giving them enlightenment yet never getting it--- except spending a a lot of money. They had no answer and lost their sales pitch-- and almost stumbled over their words, while I kept smiling and loving them, knowing they too would find the answer when they were willing to find the truth.Always feel free to present Jesus as the source of all you are and do, never apologizing why you believe, just tell of the miracles Jesus has performed in YOUR LIFE.
And no, that does not make you a specially gifted person, or a holy person--- it just confirms that Jesus is so real--- and that He wants others to feal HIS realness. If they do not want to believe---- tell them to ask THIS JESUS to reveal HIMSELF to them!
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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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