Gap Year Racers and I split up into groups and shared all around Gainesville’s square today. Tha best!
Nick, Phillip and I met “D” first. He asked if we were Mormons or Jehovah Witnesses. I assured him we weren’t.
D shared his story with us which included him coming to know the Lord in 2001. He then was getting into drugs and struggled with following Jesus. This last March he got free from his addiction and was able to truly began to follow the Lord again.
Phillip shared his testimony and scripture with “D.”
“D” began to tell us how he read the book of Jasher, the Apocrypha, etc. He then said that Mormons, like the Gap Year Racers’s age, come and share with him.
I said “Oh, well let’s meet them!” He messaged the girl and we set up an appointment for next Friday at 3pm to meet these Mormon missionaries.
Then Nick felt led to the skate shop and there we met another “D.” I asked about D’s tattoos but he wouldn’t share. I told him who we were and what we were doing and he said “Don’t bring your faith stuff in my shop.”
He said he just lives by the motto “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” I asked where he thought that came from. (Like pointing to a moral lawGiver) He just said it was his motto in life.
He said “I like to hear about people.” I said “Okay, can I share my story?” He said “Not the Faith part.” I said “What if I share my story like without…” D cut me off and said “I don’t wanna hear your story.”
Around that time God showed me a vision of a chisel and hammer and how He wanted to break D’s hard heart.
I told him.
He said, in jest, “So, God wants to kill me?”
”No, He just wants to break off the hardness and give you a soft heart.”
Phillip says “There is actually a Bible verse that says that….”
D cut him off with a somewhat knee jerk visceral reaction to the thought of scripture being spoken and said “Don’t bring Bible verses in my shop.”
It’s kinda funny because D has just said his motto for life was Matthew 7:12.
If anyone disciples you and says “Oh we are such a Postmodern nation that saying ‘The Bible says’ isn’t relevant to people. We have to use a different approach,” Don’t drink the kool-aid.
The word is alive and active and sharper than any two edged sword and I have watched lives respond to it for 20 years. Yes, you might get a reaction because that sword is sharp. It pierces through bone and marrow.
