My thoughts on the shootings at VA TECH

Some of you may know this is my home area. My mother worked there for almost 20 years, I grew up walking around the campus much of my unsaved life. The Gateway Baptist Church, the church where I was saved, baptized, ordained, and married in, is just minutes from campus. One of the first times I went soul winning was in the drill field. My friend, Darrell Ratcliff, (who now is a missionary to Mexico), and I, would go to the drill field and wait for classes to let out. The drill field is the main hub on campus.  We would literally hand out thousands of tracts. Most of my early soul winning converts were Tech students. I remember a fellow by the name of Hal, who I led to the Lord.  He was wrapped up in a cult, and I was able to see him get saved and be discipled. He got into Gateway Baptist Church and worked in the Bus Ministry, as well as looking to take the Gospel back to his people in China one day. He graduated with his Doctorate degree in Science, took a three year job in a lab, and then was going to go back to China. So what is my point?  What if someone would have witnessed to this fellow that did the shootings and had seen his life changed? Everyone wants to criticize the Police, and the Campus. Let me criticize the Born Again Bible Believing Christians. God’s own Children!!  We sit back with our pageants and cantatas, our programs and our procedures, but evangelism, if we are honest, many times takes the back burner. Less than 5% of Christianity shares their faith, while 100% of those who are lost go to hell! WOW!

And you see, my point is this, that there are thousands of these ticking time bomb people in our cities and towns. When the next one happens, (and it will) can we say like Paul said:

Acts 20:26  “Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.” Have we witnessed to college students in our area? How many gospels tracts have we given out? Are we busy about the Lord’s business? The Lord is the One that can really help these kinds of people. Romans 10:14 “How then shall they call on Him in Whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?”

Maybe God looks at us and says "What was your response?"

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