Lunch Hour at the Mall

My brother-in-law, Ian, is a traffic engineer for our city. Like me, Ian, enjoys sharing the gospel with lost souls. Instead of downing a ham & cheese sandwich for lunch, Ian decided to spend his lunch hour with me, fishing for souls at our local mall.

We had several good conversations, the last of which was was with a group of teens in the food court. Have you ever shared the gospel with a teenager?

You have? Okay. Have you ever shared the gospel with a teenager who claimed to be a Marxist?

You have? Okay. Have you ever shared the gospel with a teenager who claimed to be a Marxist and a deist--someone who believes God exists but is uninvolved in the affairs of the world and of men?

You have? Okay. Have you ever shared the gospel with a teenager who claimed to be a Marxist, a deist, and a theistic evolutionist--someone who believes that God initiated creation, but then evolution took over?

You have? Okay. Have you ever shared the gospel with a teenager who claimed to be a Marxist, a deist, a theistic evoluntionist, and a person who believed that truth was relative--not absolute?

You have? Really! Okay. Have you ever shared the gospel with a teenager who claimed to be a Marxist, a deist, a theistic evolutionist, who believed that truth was relative--not absolute, and had a somewhat smug attitude?

You haven't? That's okay. Neither had I...before I met this young lady.

A young man in the group professed to be very religious. He was friendly, but rather self-righteous. Another young man in the group claimed to be a Christian who disagrees with what the Bible says about homosexuality.

What began as a silly offer to win a $5 gift card to "In-n-Out Burgers," became a 20-minute conversation in which Ian and I talked to the teens about evolution, the Big Bang Theory, truth, science and the Bible, the Law, and the Gospel.

Click here to listen to the entire conversation. There were disagreements (certainly), but no arguments. The Law and the Gospel was preached. Ian and I used a number of analogies. And pay particular attention to how Ian uses the imagery of a dismantled clock to dismantle our Marxist, deist, evolutionist's view of things.

What I hope you will take away from listening to this conversation is that no matter what someone may throw at you, so long as you stand on the truth--the Law and the Gospel--you can survive conversations like this. Not only can you survive, but you can effectively leave your listeners questioning their faulty belief systems and, in their place, plant spiritual seeds the Lord could use to draw unsaved sinners to Himself.