Thursday - July 24

Last day...very sad!
Dr. Jeff VanGoethem gave a great sermon on climbing under the burden of God. The jist of it was to stop going to God with our list of demands and ask God to lay his burdens on our heart. Kind of like the new Brandon Heath song "Give me your eyes".

We took the Subway to Washington Square Park (as seen in the movie August Rush). By the power of the Holy Spirit, I got on the subway and stood up, announced who I was, and proceeded to tell those about the Gosepl. A white boy from rural USA preaching the word of God on a subway in NY...crazy! I was paired up with our leader Dustin. We did surveys this day. The first man we approached was a gentlemen by the name of Julio. Julio was a quiet man who was living in a shelter and just hanging out on the bench. Dustin did most of the talking, quoted tons of scripture and after an hour or so of chatting, Julio gave his life to Jesus. Was an awesome thing. We gave Julio a Bible and some guidance for what to read. We took down his information so that someone could follow up with him and get him some more material. We also gave him a list of churches in his neighborhood to check out.
Then it was my turn. We approached two gentlemen who reluctantly agreed to do the survey. Drew quickly announced he was a christian and didn't want to talk to us. Dustin asked Stax, the other man, what he thought. He knew about Jesus but wasn't a Christian. Dustin pleaded with him and quoted scripture, and it was incredible to see the power of Scripture. You could just see the Holy Spirit working on the man as Dustin continued to speak scripture. He took a phone call and after that seemed annoyed, so we left him a tract and broke for lunch.
We came back and met Brandon, a gentleman from England who was not interested at all in what we had to say. But as Dustin quoted scripture, you could just see his demeanor change. The bible says the Word of God is like a double edged sword, and I saw it today. Question after question, answer after answer, you could see the wheels turning. Brandon had to go but we know a seed was planted.
Our last man we talked to today was a homeless man by the name of Mike. Mike had 9 children and knew the bible inside and out, but had no faith in Jesus and no interest in putting his faith in him. We left him with a tract and that was it for the day. 4 deep conversations and I learned from Dustion how to plead in a gentle, non condemning way to come to Christ.

We had a closing worship service from 6-8 with story after story of incredible things that God had done. Spreadtruth.com is compiling them and will eventually publish them. We headed to time square again for some last minute shopping and some soft serve ice cream. Oh yeah..we ate at a Turksih restaurant as well. We gave the workers gospel tracts...they gave us cards for a belly dancing show!