Different day, same routine. After breakfast and meetings, we drove out to our mission point. Each team picked up where it left off and continued going door-to-door, house-to-house and sharing the gospel. It is such a joy to see the national church members take ownership of the evangelism process. After watching us conduct a few visits - giving our testimony, going through the tract, and using the Evangecube - the nationals were immediately ready to do it themselves. For every visit we made today except one, the nationals in my group did the entire gospel presentation while I stood there and silently prayed. On the one hand, I was feeling kinda useless on each visit, but on the other hand, I knew that this was the whole reason we came to Barra Mansa - to train the nationals how to win their country to Christ. Americans can certainly help, but the only way the gospel is going to reach the nations is for nationals to take it to their own people.
The evening meeting went well tonight. We had 48 people there, up from 32 the night before. Two members of our team went to an English class and hopefully had an opportunity to share the gospel (we haven´t heard back from them as of this post). It´s been confirmed that I will get to share with 3 English classes tomorrow. Our translator said that historically, the young people have tuned out Americans when they begin to speak about religious matters. Please pray that God will open their eyes and ears, and that He will speak clearly and effectively through me. Also be in prayer for tomorrow and Thursday. Tomorrow begins our discipleship emphasis. For the past 2 days, we´ve met with people, shared the gospel with them, and many of them have placed their faith in Christ. For the next 2 days, we´ll go back to their houses, teach them how to look up Bible verses, lead them in an elementary Bible study, and simply encourage them in their new journey with Jesus. It´s really cool stuff. Wish you could see it. Hopefully some of you can in future trips. ;)
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