Daniel M.
Puritan Board Freshman
I regularly talk to a bright young man I work with about my faith in Christ. Just by listening to him, I suspect his heart is fertile ground to be collected by God.
He's well-versed in philosophy, and identified as an agnostic, but he talks of wanting to be assured of God, but being unable to make the "willful suspension of reason" it takes to make a "leap of faith". I addressed that. Naturally, he's on my prayer list.
I overheard him telling someone that his mother died when he was younger. He comes from an African Muslim background, and his father regularly urges him to search the Bible and Qu'ran for their "teachings of wisdom".
It then dawned on me that, for many of the lost, our message is especially hard because it means their dead loved ones are now condemned.
I have never had this happen, and I thank God I haven't. Brethren, what do we tell someone whose loved ones have passed into condemnation?
He's well-versed in philosophy, and identified as an agnostic, but he talks of wanting to be assured of God, but being unable to make the "willful suspension of reason" it takes to make a "leap of faith". I addressed that. Naturally, he's on my prayer list.
I overheard him telling someone that his mother died when he was younger. He comes from an African Muslim background, and his father regularly urges him to search the Bible and Qu'ran for their "teachings of wisdom".
It then dawned on me that, for many of the lost, our message is especially hard because it means their dead loved ones are now condemned.
I have never had this happen, and I thank God I haven't. Brethren, what do we tell someone whose loved ones have passed into condemnation?