Teaching Youths

Darren and I hit the streets yesterday with the goal of sharing the gospel with people, and we had a successful time.

We talked with two teenage workers who were on their break from New World. They politely listened to us and didn't really have any questions for us, frankly because they had confessed they hadn't given God much thought. It was great to meet them and to encourage them to give it some thought. When sharing with people who are on their break I'm often conscious that they may not want to spend it talking to a complete stranger about the things of God, so I don't waffle on, I get to the point. I give them the law so they can see their sin and therefore their need of God's forgiveness. I then give them the gospel. Then I make sure I've given them a tract so they can refer to what we've talked about later.

We later shared with a group of teenage boys. I taught one of guys back in 2009 when I was a student

Darren teaching youth the things of God

teacher in his class. It was amazing to see him now as a young teenager, now on the same eye level with me when he's standing and now with a 'not so high' voice anymore. It was also amazing to have the opportunity to share God's glorious gospel with him outside of school. We asked them if they had any questions and they did. 

"How can we know God exists?"

"Do you come back as an animal?"

"What's hell like?"

Seeing Darren teach these kids about the things of God was priceless, I had to capture it on film. Where else would these kids learn about these things?

We also shared with another group of young adults along the Strand outside the movie theatre. They seemed very scientific, mentioning thing like the 'Big Bang Theory' (not the TV show), and how the universe is expanding.  One of them said Christianity was forced upon her as a child so she decided to turn away from it altogether. We went through the law and they were convicted of sin, and confessed that if heaven and hell existed they'd end up in hell. We then talked about Jesus, the only one who can save them from sin and hell. They began to argue where God came from. Who created God? This question is very simple to answer. No one did. God is eternal, He always existed. For more information on this visit http://carm.org/who-made-god-richard-dawkins.

Please pray in particularly for one of the guys we talked to. His name is Ben. Pray that God draws Ben to Himself.