On Saturday we did a training for City Church International and then took about 25 people out to the West End to share the Gospel. A few people who had been trained before came to help us with the newly trained people. Here is an encouraging report of how Brian got to share the Gospel with one man:
I had the opportunity to witness to a few people in the Westend Dart station on Saturday. I met a young man by the name of Casey who was a postmodern atheist. He told me he didn’t believe in God and that what I believe is what I believe and what he believes is what he believes and we can all believe what we want to believe.
I asked Casey if he stood on the dart rail train tracks and believed with all his heart that the train wasn’t going to run him over, would that change reality? He confessed, “no”. I pointed out the problem with his postmodern veiwpoint. Then I used the building and the builder analogy (i.e. the building is proof of the builder) and pointed out a few scientific facts for intelligent design such as the perfect placement of the moon that keeps our continent from flooding over twice a day. Then I steered the conversation to God’s law, sin, and judgment, as I did not want to get stuck chasing rabbit trails with him all afternoon.
I took him through 3 or 4 commandments and pointed out that he actually transgressed the second commandment by fabricating a God of his own understanding (i.e. “I believe what I believe”). I also used a prophecy out of the bible that describes the times we currently live in written 2,000 years ago (2 Timothy 3). I let Casey read the passage himself and he confessed that the passage fairly accurately described the times we live in.
I never got a chance to share the good news with Casey as his heart was so hardened against God (God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble). I told him I knew exactly why he didn’t want to believe in God and quoted John 3:16-21 to him and pointed out that he didn’t want to believe in God because of his sin. As his train pulled up to the DART station he insisted that he was a “good person”. So I left him with one of Carl’s “good person” tracts as he boarded the train.
