Pergamum

Today was kind of hard.  Aaron and I went out sharing together.  Within 3 hours, we initiated 10 conversations, 7 of those conversations lasted 30 seconds, shared the gospel twice, and were blown off three times.  It was kind of a rough day for us.  The first time we shared the gospel was pretty good.  We shared it with two guys, and one of them seemed interested in possibly learning more about God and Christ but didn't speak up much because his friend is against the church.  All in all, it was a good conversation.  We gave them a flyer for this thing some of the stinters are speaking at on who Jesus actually is.

This evening, I went to see the Pergamum Museum.  It was incredible.  The archeologists excavated the steps, the alter and a couple of other things.  It was really incredible.  To sit where ancient worshipers sat and to see what they saw was great.  We also saw some other artifacts from Syria, Babylon, Arabia, and Islamic Spain.  Two of the coolest things was a room from Damascus, that had verses from Exodus and Deuteronomy written in Arabic on it.  The other really cool thing was another room brought back to Berlin that had Psalms in Arabic and pictures of Mary and the child Christ, the last supper, and Isaac's sacrifice.  That room also was from Damascus.  It was just really cool to see some of Biblical history in real life.  One of the guys Patrick Martin talked with today was a history major and said 90% of the New Testament was 100% reliable which was kind of cool.