Monday afternoon during one of our weekly outreach times, a student and I approached a guy sitting in the student center to talk about his spiritual beliefs. I knew it was going to be interesting when he said that he would “love” to talk about spiritual things, then we noticed the book he was reading, a book about Hinduism.
Over the next two hours we talked with Justin about his beliefs, plus three of his friends came and sat down with us and joined in on the conversation. None of them were believers, but all of them had grown up going to church regularly. The great thing about that is they had a good understanding of the Bible and could talk about various passages. The sad part is most of them did not have good experiences growing up and that contributed to their current atheistic or agnostic worldview. Justin was the only one that seemed to still be investigating faith, evidenced by the book he was reading. He’s researched Judaism, Buddhism, Muslim, and Hindu religions and he loves what Jesus taught but doesn’t believe He is the Messiah.
I have no idea if our conversation moved them any closer to re-examining Jesus and who they believe he is, but I made some new friends and I think we will be able to continue talking whenever I see those guys on campus.
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