CEBC!!!! ~ Day 1

The last two days I've been going down to the Austin Trail of Lights with a purpose. This purpose is to witness to people. It's been more fun than I expected although I've been waiting for this weekend for about a year. God has given me a great set of teammates including the same leader that one of my friends (Shaney) had last year. To sum it up, the first night I did open-air preaching as well as passing out tracks while the last night, I had an okay one-on-one conversation with a guy who grew up Christian but because of some of the things that God caused the Israelites to do, he didn't like this God and may become an atheist. My prayer for this night is that God reached into each person's life that received a track and He used me to plant or water a seed. Although I didn't get to reap any fruit, I know that God's word does not return void and am sure that He will use my attempts for His glory. About the open-air preaching... So, at the beginning of the night, I didn't think that I would end up doing any open-air, but apparently God had a different story in the making. That night, my partner had been wanting to do an open-air, but had realized that although she was pretty good at using the law to cause people to see their sin for what it is, she wasn't that good at telling the Good News. The news that although we have all sinned, and even if we break one law even once, we break them all, that God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son that whosoever (that means anyone) believes in Him, shall not parish, but have everlasting life. This good news does not make any sense without the knowledge of the law and of sin. Paul says that the law was the schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. In order for one to be pardoned and have Christ's words "It is finished." a phrase that was used when a debt had been paid to be applied to our lives, we must repent. This means to turn from one's sins and to forsake them. And then we need to follow Christ... anyway, that night my partner was wanting to open-air but wanted someone else to do grace (the part about us being freed from our debt through repentance and faith in Christ), I for some reason, the only reason to be is that it was all God, said that I would do grace. As I was listening to my partner, I was praying and noticed a police officer. We didn't know this at the time but another one of our groups and recently been talked to and had been told to stop. I pointed out the officer to one of my friends and then got up and did my part (although honestly, it was all God) after I got down, a few minutes later, the assistant parks director came over to my group, and told us that we couldn't do this anymore. After this we went to the fire to meet the other groups and because it was about to close, we left.
Day 2 and 3 coming soon!!