I have been taking a guy through ‘Destined’, and we just started the ‘Destined For Ministry’ book.  I figured it was time he saw someone share the Gospel with someone else.

We had been meeting at the same restaurant for breakfast for weeks, and had gotten to know the waitress, so today we ate at the same table, but later, so that with the breakfast crowd gone she would have time to talk to us.  No luck, different waitress this time.  At first we thought we wouldn’t do it; you know, relational requirements and all that.  But then we thought, no, we came here to this place at this time to do this, so we’ll go ahead and see what God does.  

To begin the conversation I asked her, “Imagine being in a room with 5 of your friends. We ask them to assume there is a God, and we say to them that if this God were standing here right now he would have something to say to them.  What he would say is, ‘I know everything about you, all you have dreamed for, and all that has gone wrong.  I know every mistake you have ever made and everything you have ever done wrong.  What I want you to know is that none of that matters in how I feel about you, and I want you to know that I love you and want to know you better, and I want to help you have the kind of life you want.’ Doris (her real name, believe it or not), what do you think they would say to that proposition?”

Doris stood there a minute and said, “You know, most of them wouldn’t know what to think, because most of them would be thinking ‘I’ve done too much wrong for God to actually say that.’  Most of them are doing those things right now, actually.”  She proceeded to tell us all about the other waitresses in the place and all the activities they were into.  Quite a list.

We asked her what she would say to her friends who would respond in such a way.  She said, “I don’t know.  What would YOU say?”  As you might imagine her time was now getting short, after only 2 or 3 minutes, so I gave her a 4-Laws and told her to see me next week if she had any questions.  Well, about 10 minutes later (I assume after looking at the booklet) she came back and sat down, explaining that she was already a believer but did not know how to explain her faith to others.  I asked her about our usual waitress, and Doris said that Angie would be back next week and was one of the ones she was worried about, and she asked us to ask Angie the same questions we asked her, and to tell her how Angie responded.  

So now my friend and I have two jobs, explaining the Gospel to Angie and building Doris to be the on-site evangelist.  You never know where things will lead.