Sometimes the unremarkable can be incredibly significant and wonderful… My family and I had just enjoyed a great dinner at “The Spot” in Hermosa and then walked down to the beach under a brilliant moonlit evening. There had been no natural opportunity that day to share the Gospel and I wondered how I was going
There we were, the two kids and I, ready to get some pizza in the little outdoor place at Costco, when a big burly bearded dude wearing a long black robe approached the order window…around his neck was a huge wooden crucifix, the vampire-repellant kind. Obviously this guy was a faker or a too-hip-post-modern-hippie making
I couldn’t believe it…I must have been daydreaming…somebody pinch me… I have added a new weapon in my evangelistic arsenal that people actually appreciate and an opening line that causes everyone to respond with slight embarrassment. The weapon? A pocket-sized Gospel of John. The line? “I’ll bet it’s been awhile since you’ve read the Bible…”
Hi Justin, What a great meditation you just wrote, it was very interesting and I can see you are a very bright guy. I want you to look up a verse and write back and tell me what you think it means, it’s very important in terms of understanding who God is and what He
Justin’s Version: Whoa. I’ve come a long way on this one. In fifteen years, I’ve gone from the absent-spirited acceptance of my birth-given Christian faith, appropriately titled “God-fearing”, to a journey through Buddhism that I am still traveling today, to a kind of lazy, rebellious attempt at breaking away from any religion to form “independent”