On Monday we had our last outreach of the semester at Brookhaven College. It was an amazing time. I brought two cases of water to give out along with a box of One Thing You Can’t Do in Heaven books. As I walked from my car to the free speech area, I had the box of books stacked on top of the cases of water in my cart. The box feel off twice. The second time it spilled the books all over the sidewalk. Right then a student bent down and started picking up the books for me. When he saw the title he asked if I was with a ministry. I said yes and that we were there to give the books away and talk to people. He said he was a Christian and offered to help me carry things to the table. I gave him a book to thank him for his help.
When I got to the table three other students were standing by the table having a conversation. I walked right up to them as if I was expecting them and said, “I’m glad you were able to make it.” They kinda looked at me weird, but I started right off telling them I was there to hand out these books and gave them each one. They gladly accepted them. I then asked what they thought happened when they die? I got various answers from the group. The first guy who said he was a Christian offered answers to many questions like “follow the Bible” and such. So finally I asked if they were good enough to go to Heaven.
Thinking they were, they said yes. So I pulled out my Lie Detector and tested them. They were all amazed that the lie detector said “no” they would not go to heaven. So I started to explain why it would say that because each person had lied, stolen and lusted. Finally I asked, “if you died today and stood before God and he asked you why he should let you into Heaven, what would you say?”
At that, the first guy who said he was a Christian said, “honestly, I have no idea how to answer that question.” WOW! He went from being a professed Christian to having no idea how to get to Heaven in a matter of ten minutes.
The other guy who remained with me during this entire conversation answered the question the same way. He said that he attends a Catholic church down the street.
At that, I had the priviledge of sharing the Gospel with both of them. I told them about Jesus, the God-man, who lived a perfect life, fulfilled the Law and willingly became the perfect sacrifice for their sin. I explained how Jesus had died on the cross and rose from the dead. Then I told them that God commands all men everywhere to repent and believe the Gospel. Neither was ready to repent. But they were thankful for our time of conversation.
Craig, Todd and Arnold joined me at the college. We witnessed to the kids for a little over an hour. During that time we gave out 100 water bottles, 200-300 Gospel tracts, 20 copies of One Thing You Can’t Do in Heaven and a number of other resources. We had dozens of one on one conversations. Two kids that Todd talked to put their trust in Jesus Christ for the first time! Praise God!
We will be looking forward to the Spring semester starting so we can go back out.
