Flowing Streams (Zondervan) is a wonderful new memoir by Stuart Briscoe, a gifted preacher and long-time contributing editor of Preaching magazine. One of the stories that particularly touched me was from the days when Stuart and Jill were still in Manchester (in their native Britain) and he decided to venture into the local coffee house to engage some young people.
He opened a conversation with one young man who allowed him to share the gospel. When the man had to go, he told Stuart, “You don’t believe a word of all this stuff you’ve been telling us about God.”
Stuart said, “I was stunned but managed to stammer, ‘Why would you say that?’”
He replied, “That’s easy. Because all you have told us here tonight is so wonderful that if you and people like you really believed it, you would have been down here long before tonight to tell us kids about it.”
Are there people in your community who could say the same thing? Do we believe this gospel enough to take it to those who most need to hear it?
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