Saturday, February 16, 2013

Praying for Phillip

While enjoying a 2 Ordinary Women: 1 EXTRAORDINARY God ministry planning session the weekend of 1/11 in Atlanta, Kristi and Nena prayed for God to put people in our path that needed to hear the Gospel. It was important for us to not just spend wonderful time planning and praying but to be God's hands and feet to those that need Christ while we were together. On Saturday night we, unfortunately, got distracted while at dinner (so easy to do!) and missed an opportunity to share the Gospel with someone at Chipolte but, thankfully, God gave us another opportunity Sunday night. We had just stepped off a shuttle bus





that was dropping us off in a remote parking lot after an awesome worship service at Passion City Church with Louie Giglio and Chris Tomlin.



A young man named Phillip approached a group of us selling grooming kits and we politely declined.
He left and headed across the parking lot.




We told our friends goodbye and then suddenly realized that God had put Phillip in our path for a reason. We ran across the parking lot and were able to catch him.






We had a beautiful discussion with him about Christ. He was so excited to talk to us because he had just started exploring the Bible but didn't understand much of what he was reading. After we explained the Gospel we asked if we could pray with him and he very much wanted us too. We also gave him a www.Biblein11.com card and encouraged him to watch the YouTube video later to fully understand what we had discussed.


He said he looked forward to watching the video and even, excitedly, asked for a few more cards to share with friends. We also encouraged him to go to Passion Church to experience the awesome worship as well as to continue to learn more about his awesome Savior.




P.S. When we departed from Phillip we bought a grooming kit and will cherish it as a reminder of how awesome it was to share the Gospel together. Christ, You are 'grooming' us to do Your work and it is such a PRIVILEGE!







Lord, thank you for the courage & boldness to do what Christ instructed us to do. How are people going to learn about Christ if we don't share the Gospel with others? Thank you for making that question so real in our lives after we prayed for You to show us the world through Christ's eyes. There are so many 'Phillips' out there and continue to help us reach them. The key is to ask for You to put people in our paths because then we can be confident that You have prepared the hearts of those that we meet.

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