February 2017
Dear Praying Friends,
He saw our website and came for a visit. He began attending services on a regular
basis, but once comfortable, he began to interrupt my messages with off the
wall questions and insults. He loved to
compare our church with others he had attended; almost always in his
observations, our church came up lacking.
Finally, one Sunday morning, he insisted on interrupting the beginning
of the service and I asked him to calm down and talk to me afterwards. He left in a huff and did not return for
months.
Out of the clear blue, he began attending yet again
and didn’t try to interrupt services as before.
We encouraged him to read the Bible daily and he read through the entire
Bible in just a few months. He seemed to
be growing closer and closer to salvation, yet his eight years in Buddhism and
multiple experiences with demons clouded his reasoning and caused much
confusion. I cannot count the number of
hours I spent talking with him and trying to answer his questions from the Word
of God.
Sadly, in one of our recent Bible studies, he stated
that 70% of the Bible is true but 30% is error.
He further announced that God did not create the universe as Genesis
chapters one and two declare, but that everything came about by evolution. Stunned, I asked him, “Are you saying that
God is a liar when He said He created the heavens and the earth?” To which he replied, “Yes!” Our hearts are broken by his rejection of God
and His Word. Do I regret all the time I
“wasted” on him? Not one bit! We are praying for J. that he would
surrender before God and submit to Christ as his only way to heaven. There is always hope until his last
breath. That is why we continue to plow
and plant regardless of the immediate results. God’s Word and the Holy Spirit
can break the hardest of hearts and bring the proudest sinner to repentance.
Heartbroken, but not disheartened,
Mark Hale
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