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Sunday, 08 August 2010 21:54

The students had their examination time in July. Therefore, I pressed on sharing the gospel and discipleship with the students I had already known.

I tried to get in touch with Alin who came to our meeting with Paul Washer. But he didn't have time to get together with me because he had exams. Instead, I got to see Roxana again who also came to the meeting. She was not sure of her salvation. My wife talked to her and then asked me to share the Word with her. This is what Roxana told me,

"my mom is a Christian. When I was little I once said a prayer to invite Christ into my heart. I gave up going to church when I was in the 8th grade. I told my mom I saw no change in my life. But she told me that if I had invited Him to come into my life, He sure did. The pastor of the Baptist church told me the same thing and so did the pastor of the French Church. But yet, I don't see a change in my life. I still struggle with unbelief. Sometimes I think Jesus never existed, and sometimes I do. I do things that God doesn't like. I struggle with fear of all kinds such as I am going to die or get sick. What do you think?" I tried to describe God to her. I talked about His holiness and the nature of sin. I preached to her the Law and His wrath. Then I got to salvation through Jesus Christ. At the end, she told me she understood better, and it was clear to her that she didn't have Christ. We are praying that God will give her light and repentance.

I continued the Bible study meetings with Florin whom God saved. Together with him and my sons, we met on a weekly basis to study the Bible just before the church services. I can see God causing him to grow in his faith. He shared his faith with his colleagues. He comes to church on a regular basis and we also talked about baptism.

We had two Bible study meetings at our place where we had both Christian and non-Christian students coming.  We approached topics such as pornography and celibacy from a Biblical perspective. Vali is not a Christian yet, but he continued to attend our meetings and brought his cousin, Daniel, along. Vali joined our evangelistic project for students.

I continued the study and preaching activity in the church. I was invited to preach at the wedding of our ministry colleagues. I preached at the church in Fieni and my wife shared the testimony of her clinical death.

Liviu and Adi are brothers. They grew up in an evangelical church. I shared the Word with them and gave my personal testimony.  Liviu was more receptive than Adi. I asked Adi if he felt disappointed by God in anyway and he said he didn't.  Liviu told me he no longer went to church because his friends drew him away from God to sin. Their mother is a believer, but their father is not.

 

 
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