Today, I had a pretty good quiet time. I woke up really tired and had a sore neck. I haven't been sleeping well the past couple of nights, but I only a few more days in the bed I'm in. In-spite of that I spent a good hour with God, asking for Him to refresh me and keep me burning for Him. On campus today, Alyssa and I went sharing. The guy we sat down with at lunch didn't speak English, so we just talked between ourselves since I don't feel confident enough to share in German. When we went back to the south part of campus, the first guy we spoke with was from South Carolina. He grew up in the church but fell away when he saw how people, in this case priests, can use God to do bad things. But before we could really share and let him know that we are not called to live like that, he had to leave. The next person we talked with, was this girl Ulli. She was really nice but had some traumatizing experiences. She said that she lost her faith at age 10 when something horrible happened in her life and that she didn't think God was with her through it. We tried to say that God was with you through that, and His heart broke when it happened and that He can heal you. As we started to explain that, she moved into how God was neither good nor bad and that Allah, Buddha, Krisna, YHWH, etc are all the same god. When we asked her about what she thought would happen in death, she said that she had vision where she was approaching death and her grandma said it wasn't time for her to die but when it was she would walk with her through a purgatory type of place seeing everyone she's ever met before deciding if she wants to move on to something else or relive life. It was very odd. She somehow moved into how Jesus is viewed the same in both Islam and Christianity. We tried to discuss that with her but she had to leave for work.
The last guy we spoke with was very odd. I'm not really sure what he believed other than helping the poor and communism. He was very smart, just very odd. He kept talking about LSD, I kind of think he was on some sort of drug. He believed that people have auras and energy but that Christians have weaker auras than the rest of society because we spend so much time serving others and that we steal other people's energy. It was all really weird. I spent some of the time in prayer and then the rest trying to figure out a way we could get out of the conversation since it was moving no where and we were supposed to be back at the hostel at 4 but somehow Alyssa found a way to share the gospel with him. She was like "ok, you know how you keep talking about how there is so much suffering in the world? It's because of sin and then Jesus came and He is the way for us to get out of it. He came so we can find redemption and hope. He taught that we need a relationship with Him to heal ourselves and then we're supposed to help everyone else." We ended up giving him one of our pages that have the churches we got on it with our emails. I hope he emails us and goes to one of the churches and sees how much people care about this world because God cares about this world.
For dinner, Austin, Alyssa, Jenna, Kathy, Patrick Martin, Christina, and myself went to this Spanish place for dinner. It was so good. I forgot how much I like Paella.
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