Justice or Grace? Your choice...

Now that Riverbend is over I am getting back in the saddle of going downtown to share the Gospel with the folks of Chattanooga. This morning I was feeling a little rusty but I quickly got back in the swing of things. The very first thing I noticed where two Jehovah’s Witnesses passing out their Watchtower literature to people sitting at the bus stop. I reached into my tract wallet and realized I had left my Warning tracts at home. “Oh great!” I thought. Now what? So I sat down beside one lady and gently asked a few questions about her spiritual beliefs and warned her of the Watchtower magazine. These two JW’s were walking down the sidewalk giving this junk out to everybody they found. “That’s enough! I’m printing a ton of warning tracts and I’m going to cover downtown with them.” I thought to myself.

I was witnessing to a young man named Chris when a JW came up to us and offered a Watchtower magazine. Chris took it, but I asked the man “I’ll take one but if you will wait a few minutes we can talk about your literature you’re giving out.”

“What’s wrong with my literature?” He said.

“I didn’t say anything was wrong with it. I said if you will give me just a minute we can discuss what you have there.” I replied back. He just turned and walked away down the sidewalk. After I was finished witnessing to Chris I told him who the JW’s were and what they believed. I asked him to not read the magazine but to put it in the trash. He smiled, took my tracts, and left the Watchtower book behind. So I picked it up and put it where it belongs…in the garbage!

I was witnessing to someone standing on the sidewalk when a young lady walked up to us and handed us both a “Smart Card” tract. I stared at it for a moment. I couldn’t believe it! I just got tracted by a Living Waters tract. Cool! I said “Hey wait a minute!” and I showed her the tracts that I had in my hand. I reached into my backpack and gave her about 70 to 80 of the giant 100 dollar bill tracts. I also asked her to go to my website and email me. I was so shocked this happened. God continues to awe me with the blessings that He hands out. My prayer is that God opens doors to create a Chattanooga based evangelism team and I need evangelists to do that.

I noticed Darryl sitting next to the entrance of the courthouse downtown. I passed a tract to him and asked if I could sit down for a talk. Darryl said something really interesting to me. When I was going through the Law with him I said “Ok, Darryl I’ve given you the bad news now here is the good news.
He said “Yes, please give me the good news!” He was truly convicted. He knew that if God had judged him right them he was headed for Hell. It turned out that Darryl was at the courthouse because he had to turn himself in. He told me he had to pay attention to this because the Lord was trying to get his attention. Wow! How cool is that? The Law did its work in bringing the knowledge of sin and judgment to him. He wanted the good news of the Gospel because he knew that he would be helpless before God on Judgment Day. The Law of God truly lead us to the foot of the cross (Gal 3:24). It is there that we see Jesus not as our condemning Judge put as our faithful Savior.