For Pastors Only
TRUE STORIES THAT SPEAK
The man's twin sons came to VBS that Summer some 30 years ago. As was my custom, I went to visit their home and meet the parents. As I walked up the drive a man came out of the house with the two boys behind him and he said to me, "You are from the church, aren't you?" I replied, "No sir, I am from God." He said, "I don't believe in God." I glanced down at the two 8 year old boys who were hanging on every word we said and the Holy Spirit prompted me to do something I had never done before. I reached out and gently took him by the arm and said, "Do you mean that you don't believe there is a God?" He confirmed that indeed is what he meant. In the distance a Florida thunderstorm was approaching and I bowed by head and said, "God, will you strike this place with lightning." The man jerked away from me and ran into his home and came back with a beer in his hand and said, "You are making me nervous." I told him that if there was no God then my prayer meant nothing but it was obvious that he didn't believe 100% that there was not a God. I then told him that to allow his denial of God to condemn his soul was one thing but to allow it to sway his precious sons was quite another. I went on to share the gospel but not long after that I moved on to another church and don't know if the Gospel Seed every sprouted in his or the boys lives. BUT I DO KNOW THAT DURING THAT BRIEF AND UNUSUAL ENCOUNTER GOD BECAME MORE REAL TO HIM AND THE SEED WAS FIRMLY PLANTED IN THOSE TWO YOUNG BOYS HEARTS.
