Author: TallyPreacher

Heading to FSU on my lunch break today I got stopped by a guy downtown who said he always sees me on my scooter zipping to and fro and carrying a big grey backpack full of gear (step stool, signs, bibles, chalk etc.).

He thought maybe I was a courier delivering documents all the time. I explained to him that in a way I am a delivery guy. We talked for almost an hour before I had to get back to work.

He brought up all kinds of topics including his own experience with drugs, abortion and fighting. He respected what I go do on my breaks and said he sort of is a Christian/Catholic. He said that he has a major surgery on his knee on Wednesday to replace it after a major accident last year. Pray for him to continue seeking God and His grace and mercy. (And for a successful surgery)

People are always watching what you do, Christian. For better or worse. Love your neighbors and share the Gospel unashamedly.

I tried a new location today and it produced wonderful results. Rachel, a Christian, said she didn’t have a Bible here in Tallahassee. She was so enthusiastic to receive one that I brought for this very purpose! She was craving community and Bible study and had lots of questions and made many connections about Old Testament shadows/signs and symbols.

We are meant to live in community and not in isolation. I think she received that counsel heartily. Tears were streaming down her cheek hearing the Gospel today. What a sweet conversation. Pray she gets plugged into a Bible-believing church and grows in her faith and realization of being an adopted daughter of the King of the Universe. 😇

I used a line today that I hear a lot from Frank Turek a lot and got surprisingly honest, but sad answers. “If you discovered that Christianity was true, would you be a Christian?” A majority of answers from non-Christians // “NO.”

A few said, “I’d have to think about that.” And only one person said, “Yes.”

What about you?…

Today I experimented by writing with chalk “Turn Off Headphones” and “Look Up” and a follow up of “Free Zone” or “Talk to Jay”!

A significant number of students looked up and engaged when I talked with them. 😁

I asked those who walked by today if they knew where they would be in 235 years from now. I’m hoping to spark in their minds the fact that one day they will die unless Christ comes back before then. Pray for these individuals who may never have, but now might wrestle with the heavier facts of our fleeting lives as sons of Adam. Point people to eternal life!

Today I wrote in chalk on the floor a list of people who could receive a free bible:

• Atheists
• Agnostics
• New Christians
• Jews
• Muslims
• Everyone!

A decent amount of people stopped to look at the list or at least read it while the walked past. One young man named David who said he is a Christian came up after reading the list and said he didn’t have a Bible. He lives in a home with a Catholic mother and a Christian father. He even had a large tattoo on his arm with scripture on it. I was happy to give him one! Please pray for David. He seems to be interested for the first time in God’s Word.

Good day but slow day. Xin the man on the fence between Christianity and Atheism stopped by after lunch today. We did not talk much about the Gospel. I offered him a free book about the Gospel but he declined.

He did ask if I come out here every week. I told him yes most every day I can on my lunch break. I reminded him that I’m here for him to answer any questions about God and the Bible and that this stuff is so very important. Please pray for Xin. (I also saw Sarah the Muslim / Atheist today too. Don’t forget her in your prayers.)

Xin (pronounced shin) stopped to talk for about 10 minutes today. He was raised in Communistic Atheistic/Buddhist China but had a Christian grandmother who “would pray before every lunch and dinner.” Xin said he believes somewhere between Atheism and Deism.

He recounted several stories from Christian friends, like Jesus turning water into wine. His friend gave him a Bible in English and he also has one in Chinese!

I got to share the glorious Gospel of Jesus with him and also gave him a tract to take with him. Please pray for Xin. This was a great conversation. I can’t wait to meet his grandma in at the resurrection!

Today I met a young professing Christian named John. He made a b-line straight for my corner at FSU and came with a bunch of great questions. John said his dad sends him and his immediate family daily scripture, worship and prayer guides. Each Sunday his dad does a Zoom call Bible study with their whole extended family – whoever will join in.

John was told when he was younger to read the Bible and when he got in trouble he would have to read a chapter and then write a report about it.

He never really understood the Bible he was told to read because of the KJV old archaic words and also not being born again.

John now has a baby boy on the way and is beginning to see the wisdom in his Dad’s devotion to God’s Word. He said they used to live in the projects and all his friends would pick on him for having a devout Christian dad pushing so much Christianity on him but he now gets it.

I was able to give John a full ESV Bible because someone at my church gave me a box full of them to give out. Thank you Mason!! Pray for John. I can’t wait to meet his dad in heaven one day! His dad was truly faithful in trying to disciple his family.