BLESS THE LITTLE CHILDREN
This past week we had a great time at two outreaches. It is very interesting how we came across two situations at two events that were totally different. The first thing that happened was on Tuesday night, we were out witnessing and we met a man waiting for a bus at 5 Points on Alabama Street. Mike and and I started up a conversation with this man and spoke to him for a while. He was waiting to board his bus so he had a few moments to speak with us. As we were witnessing to him, he revealed to us that he had been tried in court for molesting a three year old child and found not guilty. He told us that he had been found not guilty due to lack of evidence. My reaction and Mike’s reaction were the same instantly, we were both instantly repulsed by this situation. I wish I could say that it did not bother me but my skin started to crawl at thinking about someone trying to molest a three year old child. Mike and I continued talking to the man and we begged him that even though the court threw his case out that Holy God would not throw his case out and he would be guilty and be sent to Hell to for his other law breaking. He said he would think about what we said to him then he left us.
You know I thought about it and said to us this is a really sick guy but you know this is the guy that Christ died for. Titus 3:4,5 says, “But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.” It is interesting that this scripture says that He saved us, it does not say he saved us except the child molester or the murder or the liar. He saves the sinner against all violations. I then thought, our sin must be as abhorrent to God as this guys. I stand in the same position as he does even if I find his action personally revolting. If you really think about it the Christians sins could be considered worse or more offensive to God because we sin with light.
On the other end of the spectrum. Tim, Deborah and myself went down to the Hawk’s playoff game this past week to hand out tracts. We were joined by a young man of about 10 or 11 years old who loved handing out Gospel tracts. He would come over to us and got a stack of 100 or so tracts every few minutes and then went to pass them out to the massive crowd of people heading into the game. He came up to us later and said something great that I wanted to share with you. He told us,” If the people don’t want to take the Gospel tracts they have to deal with Jesus later.” That is super encouraging to us to hear a little fellow who understood the seriousness of the Gospel. What a true pleasure it was to watch him hand out the tracts.
Tuesday 4th TNT Street Ministry 6:30 – 9:00
Saturday 8th 4 Corners Witnessing 2:00 – 5:00
Sunday 9th TNT Soccer Game 3:30 – 5:00
Monday 10th HAWKS Game Witnessng 6:00 – 8:15
Tuesday 11th TNT Street Ministry 6:30 – 9:00
Thursday 13th Bible Study Postponed
Saturday 15th AUM Dinner Service 4:30 – 6:30
Sunday 16th TNT Soccer Game 5:00
Tuesday 18th TNT Street Ministry 6:30 – 9:00
Thursday 27th Bible Study 6:30
Friday 28th AUM Chapel Service 6:30 – 8:30
Saturday 29th Outreach Atlanta 10:00 – 5:00
Sunday 30th TNT Soccer Game 3:30 – 5:00
