Woo Hoo To Sexual Immorality
Ministry Update December 13, 2020
It rained most of the day Friday and was still raining when we first started witnessing. But the rain stopped after only about 10 minutes and was clear after that. Only had two mockers that I remember. The first guy was telling me to shut up and looked quite angry. Keven crossed the street to give the guy a chance to talk, but the mocker just walked away. After that I was mentioning different sins and talked about how all sexual relations outside of biblical marriage are sins. At that exact moment, a couple were walking down the street and the woman yelled “Woo hoo” to sexual immorality.
Keven tried to hand them a tract and they both refused. Then the woman told Keven that they were heading to a bar where she was going to go have sex with her boyfriend in the bathroom. From time to time, mockers say things like this to shock us. Frankly, we’ve heard things like this (and much worse), so they really don’t shock us. Sometimes people say woo hoo to getting drunk or getting high. But it is sad to see people mocking God and storing up more wrath against the day of wrath (Romans 2:5). I couldn’t hear the conversation between the mocker and Keven, but I saw the rejection of the tract and that she kept mouthing off to Keven as she walked by. So I just kept pleading with her to stop mocking God and kept calling her to repent and trust Jesus.
Special Forces
Toward the end of the night, Keven handed a tract to a guy who said he used to be special forces. He stopped to talk to us for a while. Out of respect for his privacy, I’m not going to print his name. But special forces said that he was a Christian, but sadly he talked about everything else under the sun except for Jesus. All Keven and I wanted to talk about was Jesus, so we kept trying to steer the conversation back to Christ. The man did tell us that he lost a four-year old child and he was angry over it. He didn’t specifically say that he was mad at God, but that’s the inference we got. I told him that I was sorry for his loss and gently pointed out that we live in a fallen world. That’s why it’s even more important to depend on Jesus. I encouraged him to trust Jesus. We hope that the man reads the tract and may God convict and convert him if he isn’t really saved.
Silent Treatment
This was finals week at Misssouri State University which typically changes the traffic patterns of students. But this whole fall semester, there were less students out each week than the week before. Very few students were milling around on Wednesday and the ones that were out, said nothing good or bad during the message. It really felt like they were giving me the silent treatment. Mockers are actually more encouraging than silence because at least with mockers, you know that they hear you. They don’t like the Gospel truth, but you know they hear you. The silent treatment is the worst. But a few students were willing to take a tract.
(These updates are given to encourage Christians to share the Gospel with others)
Angry Mocker Standing Next To His Buddy