While in Minneapolis at the 2008 National Bible Quiz Tournament, I took advantage of an opportunity to share Jesus with a worker in the hotel gift shop.  I was there with my friend Irene, who is one of the girls that I minister to.  The guy working behind the counter was being friendly and asked me a question or two about the tournament and commented on our team shirts.  I explained what Bible Quizzing was and I asked him if he went to church.  He said “no”.  I asked him if he had ever considered going to church?  He said “no, that he believed religion should be kept to oneself and not shared”.  I just listened for a few moments as he explained so as not to cut him off.

Then I shared with him my testimony of how I came to know Christ and how I didn’t realize really how to get to Heaven until my brother showed me in the Word of God.  I shared with him what Jesus has done for us and that I too didn’t want much to do with religion 8 years ago.  I told him how lost in sin I was when God reached out in love to me.  I knew he couldn’t argue with my testimony, because it is what God has done in my life.  As several people began to line up in the counter at the gift shop and were ready to check out, they just listened to us talking about God.  Irene was standing by me also listening to us talk.  The man then said “I just sort of follow my own way”.

I felt the need to go as the gift shop had filled up with people and the guy seemed to be pretty set in his ways (at least for now).  So Irene and I left and told him to have a great evening!  I do pray he will think about the things we talked about and that he will learn and accept the Truth of the Bible!

All I could think is how DECEIVED this guy was that he thought religion should be kept to yourself and that he could just follow his own way.  I don’t remember his name and I didn’t see him again at the hotel working while I was there anyways.  But maybe he will begin to question his personal beliefs and consider the love of Jesus.

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