My Questions….
However, the Qs that are hanging in my mind rite now are more practical Qs. I mean my most basic Q is: How can we tell ppl abt the gospel? And the following Qs are just the practical things abt that.
As you all may know, the mission weeks that had just happened @ uni really really brought out my enthusiastic. And thanks God too that i have the opportunities to talk to some of my friends abt Christianity, although I might not be a good speaker of the gospel, and i haven’t tell them all that i want to say. Sometimes you just forgot what you should say to ur non-Xn friends, then when you remember, you’ll say,"Ohhh crap…. I should’ve said this or that to them!"
Few weeks before the mission weeks started, 3 words that kept hanging in my mind : Teach the gospel. Believe it or not. But when the time came, it’s not as easy as I thought. The non-Xn just won’t accept or understand what we’re saying abt Christianity. I also have to explain that their belief are wrong, but it’s not easy for somebody to change his/her belief in an instant. For example, what should we say to an agnostic person who believe there’s a higher power but it’s not God and just wanna live their own life? I was completely speechless at that time, coz i know before i tell them abt Jesus, i have to tell them abt the existence of God first, but i just don’t know how coz they won’t believe me!
All of my friends that I’ve talked to, they all believe that if they’re just be a good and moral person, they’ll be okay with God. To be honest, before talking to them i’ve never known what it’s meant "going to heaven by our own good deeds", coz i’ve never thought of that before i was a Xn, and after i became Xn i just don’t know what it means. But after talking to my friends and listening to what they belief, now i understand what it means, and it’s just soooo wrong! What God wants is perfection, and so far since creation there’s only 1 person who is perfect : Jesus. We’ll never be able to meet God’s standard. Then the question come : how can i tell them that fact?
All my-other-more-mature-Christian said that whatever we try to say to the non-Xn, it’s ultimately God that will change their heart. I know that’s very true. although i explain to them all my life and all my strength and all my soul, they still won’t understand unless God himself make them understand. But to what extent should we stop explaining and let God decide? And oh, don’t forget to pray ^^. Do we have to just sitting there, pray, and let them (or God) alone discover God’s Word? Lina said that, if we have told them abt the gospel, that’s it, our role is finished. the next thing we must do is pray, and let God works. And Chris mentioned that prayer is a powerful tool ^^;
Despite of that all difficulties, i really enjoy and filled with enthusiasm when i discuss these things with my friend. And when they understand, although just a lil bit of what i was saying, my heart was filled with joy and thanksgiving! One day I asked my friend, of what role did he think Jesus had so that the whole Bible is talking abt him. And he answered,"Errr…. takes away our sin??" with full of doubt. And i knew that i have to explain since the very beginning, and i started to talk abt creation, man fall into sin, receive death and judgement, and Jesus came to save us, which is basically 2 Ways To Live!
Well… he didn’t understand at that time, until I told him to read 1 Tim. 2:5, there’s one God, one mediator Jesus Christ, who is the ransom for all. He’s interested in "ransom for ALL". he said,"is this means that Jesus had saved ALL of mankind? So why there’re still good ppl non-Xn go to hell and Xn go to heaven?" And i said that it’s true that Jesus had saved all of us, that’s in the past and nothing can change that.But that doesn’t mean that everybody NOW believe in Jesus. the real main issue is in present time, where some people still don’t believe that Jesus had saved them, and completely ignor Him. so there’re like 2 choices for us : believe and be saved, or not believe and be judged.
When i finished talking, he paused a little bit, and said, "Oohhh… okay…now i get your point." And immediately i said in my heart, "AMEN, PRAISE THE LORD!!!" Finally he understand one point that i raised! Although i know that my job hasn’t done yet, but i really grateful and joyful at that time….
This makes me want to still tell ppl God’s Word!
