A Wasted Opportunity
My friend and I found ourselves talking to some Indian students from NC State sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in D.C. (It was a good July 4th, I'll have to post about it sometime). We wanted to share with them what Jesus Christ has done in our lives and what He can do in theirs, how He has taken away our guilt, how He has worked inside us to make us better than we could be on our own, how He gives love, peace, strength, and a million other things at His own expense.
We told ourselves, though, that we wouldn't "force" Jesus into the conversation (What kind of a dumb thought is that?).
We sat there and talked for almost two hours with these guys about temporary, superficial things. Where are they from, what are they studying, what sports do they like, what's home like, and any other stupid thing we could think to talk about. All the while, Jesus never naturally came up, and we never brought Him up. A while later we left them on the steps without saying one word about Jesus Christ. I'll never see those guys again, and I left them no wiser and no closer to their only hope.
That is a wasted opportunity.
A two hour conversation with a real Christian is never without Jesus.
D.
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