A Good Question
I met a friend of mine today for some lunch. He's actually studying opera at a university here, but he hurt his voice, so he had to take a year off to get better. Anyway, after a nice lunch we decided to head to a cafe for a rousing game of chess. I've played chess here before, and I figured I had a good chance of winning.
As we walked to the cafe, somehow the topic of religion came up. He asked me how my beliefs were different from Catholic beliefs, and that lead to telling the story of Jesus. After he heard what Jesus did and what that meant for me, he asked me an awesome question:
"[Follower], if Jesus paid for all your sins and completely paid your penalty, why don't you just go out and sin all you want? You're saved."
That's basically a quote of the two questions asked in Romans 6. How cool is that? He had the same response that Paul figured he would get after explaining the gospel. I was a little thrown off by that question, but I told him I didn't want to be a slave to sin, and that Jesus is a lot better than whatever sin can give you.
After that good conversation, it was time to get down to business with the chess game. As we started, it was obvious this guy knew what he was doing. It wasn't long before he had both the piece advantage and the position advantage. After a few piece trades, he was controlling the middle and getting awfully close to my king. He was about to send in the troops when I saw a pretty obvious hook with my queen and my bishop to checkmate him. With no other hope, I took a big swig of my apple tea and moved my queen into position. Fortunately for me, he was so focused on sending out his troops he didn't see the checkmate until it was too late. Score one for USA and the gospel.
Now that you have taken his king, maybe you can show him the way to your King!
Posted by
Polarbear |
8:23 PM