Friday, Lee (a Sophomore on the Worship Team) and I went out to see if we could have spiritual conversations* with random people in the food court at SLU. First we met Daniel who was raised Catholic and goes to mass weekly but believes that "you can't really know God". We talked for a while and Daniel explained a little more about what his faith meant to him and about a necklace he wore of two saints: St. Andrew and St. Jude to remind him about his family.
Then he suddenly became interested in knowing more about me and what I do and I was able to share with him the story of how God has pursued and continually pursues me to do the things that I do. I shared about how no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't escape the things that God was calling me to do in life - though I may not have recognized it at the time. Right before we left, we learned that Daniel is on track studying 4 different majors from Psyche to Spanish to International Affairs.
Next we had a very interesting conversation with a table of people including Mike, a self proclaimed atheist; Kimmy, who believes in a god or some higher power of some kind but can't describe what that god would be like; and Mark, a non-practicing Catholic. For around thirty minutes we swapped stories and learned about each other's spiritual journeys from when Mike decided god is a myth to when Kimmy had a deep spiritual experience at a Catholic retreat.
Long story short, we had a number of great spiritual discussions and met four great people. The best part? Lee asked if we can do this every Friday for the rest of the year! Please pray for us all that God would continue growing our hearts for the lost!
*Spiritual Conversations: evangelism done on the belief that the Holy Spirit is at work pursuing all people and that evangelism has twin goals of spreading the message of the gospel and changing the heart of the messenger. This is an essential discipline to practice with non-believers that you know and have only just met in order to develop compassionate hearts for the lost.
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awesome :) -CJ
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