Share Jesus Without Fear
To share the five questions with someone, I went to the **** ****** ****** Library and made them into a kind of “5 question survey”. It was very interesting, to say the least. I admit, I was nervous, very nervous, to even ask the questions of a stranger, and to make it even worse I had 30 minutes or so. At the library, I typed up the questions, and then went ahead to search for someone, feeling a strong push towards one of the librarians, but I chickened out. I went to the Christian section, hoping that God would send whoever, there, but that didn’t work. So then I walked over to the study area, the place where people go for Wi-Fi internet access, reading newspapers, or studying for summer school. At first, I went straight to a table of 3 people (two teens), it looked like they were just chatting, but turned out it was a studying session. When I asked if they would fill out a five question survey for my Youth Group, the teacher said that they “have questions of our own to fill out” so that turned out to be a no. When I was looking for next victim, I noticed that there was this one guy, reading a newspaper, who was laughing to himself, he turned out to be an Atheist and I didn’t know what to do. So I moved over to an elderly lady sitting on the couch reading a book, a kind soul. She accepted the survey, so I proceeded to the first question. “Do you have any spiritual beliefs?” She did, though before telling me the answer she informed me that I “certainly ask questions”, implying it was straight forward. Oh well. “Do you think there is a heaven or hell?” Yes, she does, but “let’s not go there” meaning she did not want to discuss hell. She also said that she thinks she will go to heaven (question 3). Why? Because her “good outweighs the bad”. Frankly, I was expecting that answer from someone, so I asked her whether she knew Jesus’ two commandments. “Do you mean the 10 Commandments?” She was confused, I guess she didn’t know. But she did want to know, as when I asked her whether I can tell her, she said yes. So I told her “Love G-d with all your heart, mind, soul, and being” and she was nodding as I was saying that. She then asked for the second one “Love your neighbor as you love yourself, neighbor meaning enemy, friend, foe, ally”. She thought about it for a minute or two, and then replied that “It does wrap up the 10 Commandments, doesn’t it?” I’m just sorry I didn’t have the specific verses with me at the time, I would have loved to discuss this a bit more. “To you, who is Jesus?” She said that it is hard to explain, that Jesus is “G-d ethereal, G-d’s Son”. “If what you were believing is not true, would you want to know?” She said she didn’t really think that she is wrong, and that she knows that “there a lot of wacky ideas out there”. I really regret not sharing some Scripture with her though, I just pray that G-d show her Himself. And that was the end of the interview, with her, so I stood up, thanked her, shook hands, and “May G-d bless you, good afternoon ma’am”. She was amused, by that I guess. I then went around to another table, in the middle of the library, with the computers and internet access and asked a middle-aged woman. She didn’t want to participate in the survey. So I went to the next chair to a Gothic teenager girl, she answered them though she looked like she’d rather go back to her music. She has spiritual beliefs, she thinks there is a heaven and hell, if she died she believes she will go to heaven because she is good, she believes Jesus to be G-d’s Son, and when I asked her whether she wants to know the truth if her belief was wrong, she said “I want to know the truth”. I then moved across to a middle-aged man, he was just smiling as soon as he asked him permission to ask the questions. Yes, he has a spiritual belief, yes he believes there is a heaven and hell, he said that it’s not up to him where he will go when he dies, that Jesus is G-d’s Son. I didn’t ask him the last question, he seemed very for G-d. So that was my survey, it wasn’t as hard as I thought, and I only wish I had more time to share some Scripture with those people.
G-d bless,
sc
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