No, sorry, I don't feel like being converted today....
at first i thought, oh another one of these...so i click on it out of curiosity and after reading what the group was about 3 things came to mind.
1. honestly i was a little discouraged becuase i mean i go out and fish every week. and thats the exact places i go to fish. and to think these people are so hardened against the gospel that they felt the need to make a group on facebook specifically directed at people who go around trying to share the gospel. (the creator tries to play it down a little by saying that the group isnt directed at christians directly. but i mean. if it didnt bother you, why even make a group about it.)
then it hit even harder when i was going through the group members bc i saw familiar names and even a couple of friends (including friends from hs) and that really got me thinking. i mean going out and getting shot down by random people while fishing hits hard sometimes but this, this hits even harder because its not a random person expressing their hardened hearts about the gospel, its a friend, someone i know. and i couldnt help but think what couldve hardened their hearts so much in the first place. and brought home all the more need to talk to our friends and share with the people around us in addition to going out and fishing to random people.
2. the next point sorta ties in with what i just wrote about. i felt bad for tthose people out there that are so against the gospel they feel the need to come together and express their feelings about it and how they dont need it. do they really not want to hear it at all?? and i just wonder why? what are they thinking when someone does come up to them and tries to talk to them? I mean obviously im biased in thinking that i think they have a misconception of what people actually do when they fish. sure our goal is to share the gospel, but i think more importantly (at least when I go out with Ed, we specifically say we're not trying to convert them or sell them anything) we're just trying to get people to talk and hoepfulyl to get them to start thinking about things, because there are those people that flat out just say they don't want to hear the gospel.
3. after all that, i realized this is also something encouraging. something along the lines of a blessing in disguise. (sp) haha it shows that people who go out and share the gospel are making an impact in people's lives. but yeh i guess its time for football practice. so ill finish later. acutally i dont really have that much more to say but yeh. just wondering how you guys are feeling about this and i guess more generally how you feel when you do encounter people with super hardened hearts.
tee tee why el!
