Chaplain leads resident to Jesus.
For the past twenty years I’ve mentored this former pastor, now chaplain of a large nursing home. Jesus is growing him wonderfully as an example of what GospelFriendships is attempting.
–WeakDave, trying to get us believers to do the impossible, operate with Jesus-power — Jesus-humility and Jesus-love, so we will fruitfully love pre-believers into the Kingdom
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I received paperwork on a new resident who went to church when young, but with an alcoholic father. Never went as an adult. I picked up my Bible and song book and started down the hall to “bring her to Christ”. Half way down the hall, I had a strong sense something was wrong. I sat down on a chair in the hall, repented of being in the flesh, and asked God the Spirit what He wanted me to do. A song came to my heart from a popular movie, not a church song! I left my Bible and song book on the chair and went to this 86-year-old lady’s room — with no “righteousness” of my own, and no agenda but to love her. I knocked, she answered and I told her who I was and she rolled her eyes in disgust. “Are you going to read the Bible and pray?” “No,” I replied. And after a moment of awkwardness, I said, “Where did you get all these wonderful paintings?” She said, “I painted them!” And proceeded to tell me about all her paintings over the next half hour. “I have to go,” I said. Then she asked, “Are you going to read the Bible and pray?” “No,” I replied, “But I think God wants me to sing you a song.” I proceeded to sing If I Were a Rich Man, from Fiddler on the Roof, with blushing gusto. I obeyed but I did not understand. She laughed and said, “You are an odd minister, but I like you.” Two weeks later we had a heart-to-heart talk about family pain, God, etc., and she gave her life to Christ right there. She still comes to my services today, three years later.