Egghead and Carrie

Location: Downtown Chattanooga

After passing out a few Gospel tracts and trying to get loosened up (I was really nervous as I started out this morning), I stopped Johnny as he was walking down the sidewalk. He kept referring to God as his “higher power”.

So I finally stopped him and ask, “Is your higher power the God of the Bible?”
“Yes, He sure is.” He told me.

We kept talking but he couldn’t understand, at first, why God will not just forgive you if you asked. So I asked him if a judge would forgive him if he raped and murdered someone but said he was sorry and he wouldn’t do it again. He said “Well, maybe if it’s just your first offense and if you didn’t have a prior record.”

“What?! A judge would let someone go for murder and rape? No, Johnny if a judge is a good judge then he must make sure that justice is served and people are punished for their crimes. Right? How much more just do you think God will be? How much more angry do you think God will be a murderer than a human judge?”
“I see what you mean now” He said.

As Johnny and I parted ways I passed an older gentleman who was wearing a suit and tie on his way to work. I stopped him and offered him a Smart Card gospel tract. He said “What is this?” I told him just put your thumb on the card and if you’re a good person it will turn green. “Oh, I see.” He said, “I don’t like these judgmental things.” Then he quickly walked away. I thought to myself, “If you think I’m judgmental just wait until Judgment Day, pal” I’ll be praying for him.

A few blocks away I pasted by a young lady who really looked bad. She had two black eyes, a swollen face, and cuts along the side of her chin and face. I passed by and told her hello, but I felt a nudging from the Holy Spirit to talk to her. I disobeyed and she passed by. I prayed, “Lord I’m so sorry if you give me another opportunity to speak with her I promise I will.” Well, about 15 minutes later she was sitting down at a table with an old man reading a book or something. I was hesitant about talking to her because I was thinking that maybe she was beat up by the guy sitting at the table with her and he might try and mess me up too! Just then I thought about some advice from my friend Keith Higgins from http://www.savedfromwhat.org/ . Keith told me that Satan uses our assumptions against us to make us think people will not want to hear what we have to say or that they are going to be hostile to us.

Keeping his advice in mind I went over the table and introduced myself to them both. The old man’s name was Egghead and the lady’s name was Carrie. Egghead was drawing on a notepad so I asked him if he would show me what he was drawing. Egghead and I exchanged some 1-liner jokes and Carrie began to tell me what happened to her. She told me that she was drunk, high and was with her boyfriend who was messed up on crack. He freaked out and told her the cops were coming (they weren’t). She took off running in the dark and fell off of a 6 foot high wall. Not only did she damage her face, but her left leg was hurt, multiple teeth had been knocked out, and on top of that she is having surgery done next week on her jaw. The doctors are going to have to break her jaw and wire it back shut again. I witnessed to her with Egghead speaking up every once in a while. She told me that she did not have a Bible. So this weekend I am going to buy her one and take it to her downtown on Monday morning. Please pray for her. I spent about 30 minutes with them this morning. This is what I call a Divine Appointment.