On a flight back from a speaking engagement in Minnesota, I sat next to a gentleman who was listening to music on his CD player. He had to turn it off as we taxied out, so I took the opportunity to begin a conversation. After we had talked awhile I said, “Can I ask you an interesting question?” He said, “Sure.” “When you die,” I asked, “what do you think is on the other side? What do you think is out there when we walk out of here?” “That’s a good question,” he replied. “I’m not really sure, but I think that there is nothing.” “How do you know that to be true?” I asked. He didn’t have any evidence to back up his position. “Where do you get your information that there is nothing after we die?” He didn’t have a book or anything else upon which to base his belief. So then he asked me, “What do you believe?” That is a great point in a conversation! But always remember, people are not interested just in what you believe, but in why you believe it. How did you arrive at that conclusion? The man had grown up in a Baptist church, so in his heart he knew the truth of Galatians 3:24—that the Law leads us to Jesus. He now realized why he would need Jesus to get rid of all his sin. He knew about Jesus, but now he understood the reason He came to earth two thousand years ago. At the end of the flight, he told me, “You have made the flight go by very quickly. Thank you for that, and thank you for the good conversation.”
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:32:55 +0000
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