I was testing your faith.
It was pouring with rain as I stood at the doorstep under my umbrella talking with the man. Perhaps in his early thirties, he told me he’d done a lot of reading in recent times and was very proud to tell me that he’d, “read the Bible from cover to cover.” However, he said that he couldn’t understand it’s relevance for him personally since he was not a Jew or a Christian. I explained to him that the Bible is not an academic book, but rather, it is a spiritual book, and as such, one must be, “born again” to grasp insights into what God wants to communicate to us. Read the rest of this entry »
A young man in his mid-twenties came to the door and when he was informed of the purpose of my visit he told me he was a communist from Yugoslavia. Then he said, “I could be Jesus.” I told him that was not possible, so he asked me, “Why not?” I explained that Jesus was not a communist nor was He from Yugoslavia. I then went on to say that if he really was Jesus, then he’d be doing the work Jesus said He would be doing when He returns. 
The day I knocked on Errol’s door, immediately he said, “Come in. I’ve been waiting for you. If you want to know anything about the Bible, talk to me. I can tell you all about the Bible.”
The first time I met Mr de Silva he had very little time to chat, but he was very interested in my message so he asked me to come back at a later date. Three weeks later I called back and he invited me inside. He told me that here in Australia he was now a tennis coach, but in his native Sri Lanka he worked as a high-ranking Government official. At one time in that position, he said he got caught up in “some political wranglings,” and got shot two or three times in the stomach. 
