Each year the foreign teachers are required to give a lecture. We never know to expect hundreds of students or eight students. I give the same speech every year: American Family / Chinese Family. I show some pictures and tell some family stories.
This year seemed quite productive. More than 100 students came to listen. There was a representative from the English office taking role, thus the great attendance. Caleb’s classmate GuoGuo and her parents came to listen, because they saw the speech advertised by the cafeteria. Caleb came along and was well behaved. Caleb even sang the books of the New Testament song for the crowd. One young man named Dan had many questions about the church and Bible study practices in our family. After the speech we walked together and exchanged phone numbers.
Hi Dan. This is Joshua. Thank you for your questions about the church and the Bible. We can study more Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 3:05 if you have time.
Dan: Hi Joshua. Thank you for sending this text to me. I am looking for my belief recently. So I am very glad to study more about Christian with you. I will bring my King James Bible. My time is ok. Could you tell me where we will meet?
Josh reply: Classroom A2 410. The Bible says (John 14) Jesus is the way, the truth, the life. On Tuesday we can study.
Dan has already graduated from GongDa, our neighbor university. He worked for that university for a year then quit his job to study English. Dan says, “I have found the best way to study English. Listen to English tapes and read classical English like Shakespeare. I watched a play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” One English corner instead of singing a silly song, Dan recited Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken.”
However, Dan has talked with Robert the local Bahai missionary. Presently Dan says his religion is to believe in truth, beauty, and kindness from the ideas of some German philosopher? Dan has a friend who challenged, “That is not a religion.” He gave Dan a King James Bible and stated “I read this and I became a Christian.”
Dan is a truth seeker. Pray that he will find Jesus the way, the truth, and the life.
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May God bless Dan, and keep him, far away from Robert! Just kidding...sort of.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad that Dan and you got connected. You are just the person he needed to meet at this time in His life. The Words of Life will do their work in his heart, we pray.