Neighbourhood Outreach

One of our neighbours are an active lesbian couple who love running and being healthy. Our kids were canvassing to support their school the other day and I know they had given our kids money, so I called out to the ladies by name as they were walking toward us back from a walk, “You guys gave my son some money the other day so I think I need to give you this!” I gave them a Paris Olympic million dollar Gospel tract with a runner on it and said it has a good message on the back to check out. What was even more interesting is one of the ladies had a Tour de France baseball hat on so I told her I noticed her hat and talked to her about visiting Paris this past summer, it was very friendly and a good chat and they took the Gospel tract, so I pray they read it and think about their eternal salvation as we all need to do. Kindess can often lead people to repentence. The kindness of God revealed in His Gospel leads us to repent and providing the Gospel tract and being kind and setting the tone for the neighbourly relationship will also help. Neighbours like close family are people we will see more than once and while they need the Gospel just as strangers do, they also need to see your fruit of kindness so they can see you practice what you preach. This being one of my first interactions, the Gospel tract really helped to provide truth and kindess to them. Homosexuality is what everyone expects you to talk about with them when someone professes to be a lesbian, trans, or gay. We don’t even have to do that, the knowledge of our sin can very easily come from any of the Ten Commandments, as homosexuality is a symptom of our sin nature not the root. While we don’t need to mention it we also don’t need to hide from the fact that in 1 Corinthians 6:9 it says, “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,” but it need not be the contention point. Once the moral law has been opened, the sinner knows they need the Savior Jesus Christ even as a liar and thief. Jesus is able to save homosexuals and heterosexuals who repent of their sins and trust Jesus atonement.

As we continued walking there was an older lady walking at the same pace as us so I gave her a Gospel million tract and said it was a Christian Gospel and when she found out she said she didn’t want it sombrely and handed it back to me. I asked her why (I don’t normally ask this, but she looked sad) and she said her son and his wife were just diagnosed with a kidney disease and she said, “If God is there, why is he letting this happen?” I said, “When sin entered the world from all of us going against God it made things cursed, sin harms us and Jesus gave us the way out of it. He died to set us free from sin and death. He has incredible mercy.” I thanked her for listening to me and asked the names of her kids so I could pray for them, please pray for Ryan and Maisey and this dear woman’s heart to find healing in Christ alone. Thank you Lord for finding us in our deepest need and giving us hope, thank you for your mercy and triumph over sin. Thank you for the honor of witnessing you touch lives when we least expect it. Amen.