Yesterday was Monday, meaning it was a FloValley day! Not only did Meg join us (which was totally awesome) but Robert had a great experience with a student! Instead of me telling you about it, here are his words:
Hey friends!
I totally wasn't expecting such an
amazing story from Flo Valley today. Despite whatever hardheartedness I
may have had that was enough for me to not be expectant, God is amazing
in the invitations He makes!
We were doing the Money Proxe Station at Flo
Valley's campus today in trying to see if people were interested in our
Monday bible study and possibly wanting to give their signatures to
eventually make InterVarsity an official student group on campus and saw
that there were two people, DJ and Markkease who seemed interested in
the proxe station. I was kind of hoping to just listen to Adam finish
his conversation with someone so that I could know exactly what to
invite them to, but that would've been awkward to simply stand there in
front of the first panel looking at them look at me and the proxe so I
started walking them through it.
After much good conversation about how they'd spend a
million dollars and 25 dollars, we got to the passage from Luke about
not being rich to God and the consequences that had. DJ was trying to
justify herself with all the things she did and that she did more than
Markkease while Markkease was talking about how he believed in the bible
story because he believed in God. When we got to the four circle
diagram on the last panel, the second person said that even though he
believed in God, he didn't really know about Jesus.
So I shared the gospel with them with the help of
the diagram and then apparently learned from God rather than Adam that
the invitation was to pray for Markkease that he would actually have a
relationship with Jesus for the first time. He said yes and we began to
pray. As I prayed, I noticed he started repeating what I was saying and
thought, oh I need to adjust so that he can keep up. So in short
sentences that he repeated, we acknowledged we are sinners and that
Jesus is our Lord and Savior who forgives us for those sins and that the
Holy Spirit would go into Markkease and then thank you. It was really
cool! As I type this, I'm reminded of the parable in Luke where the man
who beat his chest in asking for mercy was the one justified rather than
the other person who thanked God for how he was better than the other
man.
I got his contact info and he gave me his ID number
for one of the signatures to make InterVarsity a student group. I hope
to meet him sometime next week to talk about how we can celebrate.
Thanks!
Robert
Praise God for Robert's sensitivity to the Spirit and his risk taking. Also, praise God for new life at FloValley. Hooray!!!
Have an excellent day!
~Adam
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