More about emails

Not to beat a dead horse, but there is still lots of great stuff going on via email with my students. So much so, in fact, that I've decided to write about it again. The last round of emails were focused on my story that I shared with my students. Then two weeks ago I gave them all the "Love your enemies..." quote from Jesus and asked them to email me their ideas, which has led to even more good conversations.

I found one girl who has been reading the Bible by herself for the last several months after a foreigner she met in Macao gave it to her. She had already read through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and part of John. She was happy to find somebody else who reads it, she came to a meeting already, and has questions that she hopes somebody can help her with. I might try to hang out with her sometime :-) It can be tough to get people in the habit of reading their Bible, so to find a student who's already read through all 4 gospels on her own is pretty amazing.

Another student talked a lot about love, the problems of the world, and even included a prayer to Jesus in his email.

One girl told me that her best friend from high school was a Christian, she believed in God, and thought that she would become a "religious" Christian in the near future. She's also eager to read and study with somebody.

(Edit and add ...) There was one other girl who told me about a dream that she had after she heard the quote. In the dream, all of her family rejected her, but Jesus came to her and told her these words about loving her enemies. Turns out her aunt is a Christian.

There are several other people who have said interesting things about the quote and talked back and forth with me about spiritual things. I think 2 or 3 of them came to the meeting in our house this last week. But these 4 were the ones that really stuck out. It's simply amazing that in a classroom of random faces, there are people like this sitting silently. Without the right opportunity or probing question, one might never find these people. It's great to know that God is working is so many ways!