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November 30, 2009

Beautiful Day in Provo, Utah


Today was an awesome and glorious day in the city of Provo, Utah. Randy sweet and I went to BYU to evangelize to members of the LDS church. All praise goes to the LORD for the opportunity to share His truth and boy did we ever. We were first driving through Center Street in Provo and Randy spotted three missionaries standing on a street corner. I've never seen him so excited before in my life. He pulled the car over at his first convenience and we got out to pursue the missionaries. We got into a great conversation about the grace of God until it was cut short by their ride coming to pick them up. We had the opportunity, by the grace of god, to share the glorious good news of the gospel which is the grace and mercy of God extended to unrighteous sinners. After that conversation ended we got back into Randy's car and drove to BYU. We headed straight for the BYU food court because that is our favorite place to get into great conversations. We decided to take the straight forward approach. We walked up to two guys in the food court that were eating lunch and let them know that we were Protestant Evangelical Christians from Sandy who wanted to get into friendly discussion about the LDS church and what it teaches. They willingly accepted the offer and that initiated a good two hour conversation. Once again Randy and I had the merciful opportunity to share the truth of the gospel and the fact that we are justified by faith alone apart from any works done on our own. It was such a blessed day and we had great conversations that were not contentious at all but progressive in not setting aside the grace of God that is only found in Christ. Randy and I were graciously allowed by our LORD to put some mud in their eyes and we're hopeful that He will do the washing and regenerating which will enable them to see the unfathomable riches of His mercy and kindness. His patience is designed to lead us to repentance and my prayer is that God will continue to be patient for their sakes and continue to draw them to Himself. If you could, pray for the guys that we talked to today that the LORD would grant them repentance and that they would receive assurance of salvation that is eternally secured through the blood of the lamb that was slain for the sins of the whole world. Their names are Rick, Donnie, Elder Tueller, Elder McClurg, and Elder Barrera. My heart aches for them because it is going to be hard to enjoy being in the presence of the LORD for eternity without them. PLEASE PRAY.

2 comments:

Ambassador said...

Randy's holding a Brigham Young bill with the mormon understanding of the virgin birth on the back. We handed some of these bills out to LDS people. They believe that God the father came down and got Mary pregnant in the same way you or I would get a person pregnant. Totally different doctrine of God. They believe He has flesh and bones like we do. Different gospel? I think so. Different Theology? Yes. Christian? No.

loren Pankratz said...

Dude, it so so awesome to hear what you are up to. It is not coincidence that the Lord has connected you with Randy. Out of all the people you could be with, you ended up staying with a guy who working with you to see that that fire the Lord has put in you is fanned into flame. How cool. Cant wait to be there with you bro.

Loren