DAY 1

So as I was sitting at home all day... off work...I was wondering when and where I was going to share the gospel. my roommate asked me to take a red box movie back. I thought "this is my chance to get out and talk to people." So I go to the Kroger, deposit the red box, and proceed to enter the Kroger... perusing the grocery store to see who I would share the gospel with...I thought I would get some crackers. I walked down the aisle, saw a woman, and smiled...she did NOT smile back, "no, not her." I remembered I was out of deodorant, so I walked to the aisle where you get that stuff, grabbed my favorite scent, and continued to look around. All the while, there was a young man who was restocking some of the shelves... I thought, "perfect, he can't get away!" so I begin to look at some lotions, shampoos, conditioners, smelling each one of them, pretending to think hard about which product I will buy...

I went down the aisle smelling and thinking, thinking and smelling. And REALLY thinking of what to say, and how to say it. Cheesy thoughts kept rolling around in my head like, "do you know Jesus?", or "do you know what happens after you die?" ok, not so cheesy, but these are all those kind of awkward one liners that can bring you into conversations which help you talk about eternity and the gospel. We start talking, I ask if he goes to church around here. The young man starts to tell me about a church he goes to, and a church his aunt goes to... but doesn't tell me much. I then ask what he believes. He couldn't really tell me, except for this mumbo jumbo about going to church is like a good time to reflect, and that different people kinda believe different things. He began to open up and say that it was all kinda shoved down his throat growing up, that he now is almost an atheist. Isn't it interesting how people will open up if they just have someone to listen to them? He seemed pretty open to talk, so I began to tell him that growing up I was always taken to church, and that I "believed" it all, but didn't get it. I didn't GET what Jesus did on the cross for me. So we talked about that more, and that Jesus died so we could have eternal life, so we could KNOW God eternally. we didn't get to talk for too long, I had to go. His name is Brandon. I don't know how exposed he is to the truth, or how much of it has truly impacted his life, but please pray for him, that the Lord opens his eyes to the truth, that he chooses life with Christ.