It's really been interesting - this 'pandemic' has given many opportunities for evangelism that I never considered.
We had an email a couple weeks ago from a guy who was watching our Church services on TV.
It started out asking a question about the unpardonable sin (let's leave that topic for another thread) and he believed he had committed the unpardonable sin.
Naturally, an email out of the blue could be a , but it could also be somebody in need.
I responded with a serious treatment of the subject, basically assuring him he had not committed the unpardonable sin, or the Holy Spirit wouldn't be 'bugging' him about it. (I was more eloquent than that)
I gave him the name of a pastor in his area that I thought would do a good job of personal counseling.
I heard nothing for a while, and thought, "ok, a ".
Then, this morning, in the mail, a Christmas card with a sizable charitable donation, thanking me for taking the time to answer his question.
A letter inside the Christmas card explained that he had been separated from his wife and kids because they were "too nutty religious", were always fighting, and "I had screwed up so bad that God would never want me".
He was a warfighter - a soldier in Afghanistan (yes, we still have soldiers there) who, apparently, was suffering from PTSD.
The pastor to whom I referred him (I got his name off a referral board) was, unbeknownst to me, a warfighter from the first Iraq war, who had come home to enter the Ministry, particularly interested in PTSD cases.
Both men had trained at the same bases (in different eras) and had served in several same locations, knowing some of the same commanding officers.
Long story short, Ben (let's call him that) accepted Christ as his Savior, has been reunited with his family, and wonders how in the world he could ever have thought his wife was "too nutty religious".
"She's just a beautiful woman who loves Jesus", Ben wrote.
We had an email a couple weeks ago from a guy who was watching our Church services on TV.
It started out asking a question about the unpardonable sin (let's leave that topic for another thread) and he believed he had committed the unpardonable sin.
Naturally, an email out of the blue could be a , but it could also be somebody in need.
I responded with a serious treatment of the subject, basically assuring him he had not committed the unpardonable sin, or the Holy Spirit wouldn't be 'bugging' him about it. (I was more eloquent than that)
I gave him the name of a pastor in his area that I thought would do a good job of personal counseling.
I heard nothing for a while, and thought, "ok, a ".
Then, this morning, in the mail, a Christmas card with a sizable charitable donation, thanking me for taking the time to answer his question.
A letter inside the Christmas card explained that he had been separated from his wife and kids because they were "too nutty religious", were always fighting, and "I had screwed up so bad that God would never want me".
He was a warfighter - a soldier in Afghanistan (yes, we still have soldiers there) who, apparently, was suffering from PTSD.
The pastor to whom I referred him (I got his name off a referral board) was, unbeknownst to me, a warfighter from the first Iraq war, who had come home to enter the Ministry, particularly interested in PTSD cases.
Both men had trained at the same bases (in different eras) and had served in several same locations, knowing some of the same commanding officers.
Long story short, Ben (let's call him that) accepted Christ as his Savior, has been reunited with his family, and wonders how in the world he could ever have thought his wife was "too nutty religious".
"She's just a beautiful woman who loves Jesus", Ben wrote.
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