God Speaks Through Our Experiences?
Ministry Update March 5, 2023
My friends and I weren’t able to witness downtown Friday night. But I was able to share the Gospel at MSU on Wednesday. I didn’t have any mockers and a few students seemed to listen as they walked by. Toward the very end of my message, Eric walked up and sat down to listen. So I walked over and talked to him after open air preaching. He is a very pleasant young man who believes that God is in all of us and that God speaks through our experiences. He kept talking about experiences and about feelings the whole time we talked.
It is true that we are all made in God’s image (Genesis 1:26-27), but God is not in all of us. Those who are outside of Christ are children of disobedience (Ephesians 2:2). Those of us who are saved are children of God (Galatians 3:26) and Jesus lives inside of us through the Holy Spirit (Galatians 2:20).
You Are Going To Lose The Students
We both politely listened to each other, but he kept mentioning that God speaks to him through his experiences. The Bible tells us that God shapes us through our experiences (2 Corinthians 1:3-4), but God speaks to us through His word. I kept directing him back to the Bible, to the Gospel. At one point he told me that I was going to lose the students if I kept saying the same thing over and over. But salvation is only through Jesus Christ, so that’s why we must constantly point folks to Jesus. I told Eric that Jesus Himself said that He is the way, truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except by Him (John 14:6). People don’t want to hear exclusive statements like this in our day and age, but it is the truth.
His comments about saying the same thing over and over again reminded me of the story where a lady asked George Whitefield why he kept saying you must be born again. His reply, “You must be born again. Because, Madam, you must.” At the end of our conversation, I gave Eric a Gospel tract and encouraged him to read it. He said that he would. I also highly encouraged him to read the Bible and to read it humbly since God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). He nodded his head yes. I hope and pray that he really does read the Bible.
(These updates are provided to encourage Christians to share the Gospel with this lost and dying world.)
