MARCUS

September 7
Bus ride to Virginia

For the first time the Lord put a man next to me on the bus, a 27 year old black man, with dreads, baggy pants and a flat bill, [I wasn't really intimidated after ministering in Harlem.] He was heading to D.C. to "visit a friend" and he made small talk which eventually lead to talking about religion [as always...]

Marcus believes "He is God, because God created him and therefore we're all partly God [some truth.]  He doesn't believe Jesus was bore of the virgin Mary or that we even had a need for a savior. "Karma," was the way you live life, always reincarnating to a better or worse life depending on the way you live. "This is Hell,... there is no heaven... and the Bible is just a book."

After a while I decided to stop throwing out my Christian beliefs because he wasn't buying it, I mustn't have been very discreet, "You probably don't think I'm worth arguing with do you? You think I'm too stuck in my ways to even waste your words??" I didn't see that coming... "Do you want to hear what I believe? Okay!" I proceeded in explaining how the Devil was cast into Hell and when the fall of man happened in the Garden of Eden we gave Satan dominion of the earth therefore, this world is fallen and we ALL need a savior. I explained Christ coming of a virgin and dying on the cross to pay for the sins and then he ascended into heaven, sending us the Holy Spirit to live inside of those who accept it, which is the power that raised Christ from the grave.

"You know your stuff... you should teach or something..." He said it all sounded good and if He was able to experience God like I had told him I had he'd believe all of it too.

PRAY Marcus has a encounter with the living God who loves him that he will wake up from his slumber and open his eyes to the truth.