He’s so patient

every monday night we have community outreach.  we all split into groups and go do different things each time.  tonight the group I was in got to do “creative evangelism” – which means you pray as a group before you go out and see if God gives anyone direction as to where we should go and what we should do.  usually (if not always) the group at least goes downtown somewhere.  so tonight we went downtown.

we split into smaller groups downtown and our group had 4 people.  we decided to hit up a coffee shop first (always a good start ).  as we walked up, 2 young guys sitting outside told us we should get espresso there and we had a really short conversation.  while we were ordering, they came in and sat down and we said a few more things to each other (just small talk).  then our group went outside and sat down, trying to decide where to go and what to do.  we all wanted to go back in and sit down with the guys and talk, but where they had sat there were no other places to sit.  so we talked ourselves out of it and walked to another area downtown.  we still didn’t know what to do, so we sat down and prayed.  inwardly, we all felt like we should’ve talked to those guys, but no one said that (until after the following happened…).  when we finished praying, we looked and here come the 2 guys from the coffee shop!!  and it was odd that we saw them again because it was in a different area.  and once again, it was them who initiated the conversation!!  I mean – we totally would have initiated it this time – but before we got close enough to start talking to them they pointed at us and started waving.

it was really cool how God made it so easy for us to talk to them – THEY started the conversation!  and what was super cool was that we all felt like we had missed an opportunity to talk to them at the coffee shop, and we were all regretting it.  and here God gave us another chance and once again, made it so easy to talk to them.

one dude was an agnostic, the other was “a-religious” … basically accepting everything.  they were both college students (18 and 19) and the a-religious one kept using really big words that I didn’t understand (he was a philosophy major – figures). 

I wish I could say it ended with them seeing Christ for who He is and coming to know Him as their Savior.  but it didn’t go that way in the conversation.  it was more of a “so what do you believe?” type of path the conversation took, not one where we shared the Gospel, unfortunately.  I suck at that still.  hopefully seeds were planted or watered at least.