Dean Truett and his wife are Foursquare missionaries in the South American country of Columbia and he tells this story about one of his friends there.
The friend came to him with a question, “My pastor says that I should not do what I am doing,” he began. “I want to know what you think.”
The man described how he left the city every other weekend to minister to guerilla soldiers in the mountain regions of Columbia. He said that every other Saturday he would travel by bus for two hours, then get off the bus in the middle of nowhere and simply wait under a tree.
Sometimes he waited for only 10 minutes, and other times an hour, but eventually the soldiers came out of the mountains to get him and take him back to their camp. From Saturday until Sunday afternoon, he would sit with different groups of between 10 and 12 men, and talk to them about the Lord Jesus Christ.
At noon on Sunday, they would take the man to the highway where he would catch a bus back to town. He was aware that at any moment the guerilla soldiers could kill him, and no one would ever know what happened to him.
What many people did not know is that most of these “men” were actually boys, between just 12 and 14 years of age.
As he finished telling me his story, the man looked at me and said, “Pastor Dean, If I don’t tell them, who will?”
That is a good question. Each of us has those God given opportunities to share our personal story of experiences with the Lord Jesus. God opens the way and He leaves it to us to do the sharing. Angels cannot do it because they have never experienced the wonder of salvation. But you and I have and can. If we don’t share with them, who will?
Jesus’ last words recorded in the gospels go like this, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Mt. 28:19-10)
Pastor Brunner is the founder and director of Jim Brunner Ministries
