Hi Michael,
I'm hoping that's a good "WOW" because you agree with me.
I'd like to give the following example of what I mean:
A man I work with had a Christian roommate in the past
who used to "witness" to him a lot until this man became
completely hardened to the gospel. While on a camping trip
with him, my wife and I had plenty of opportunity to share
the gospel with him and when the subject came up it quickly
devolved into an argument with all the predictable points
and counterpoints touched on and ended completely
un-fruitful and we were so disappointed. He was "New Age" in
his beliefs and I was operating under the assumption that he
just didn't understand yet what the true gospel is and that
once he heard it, it would soften him toward it but when I
finally was able to completely spell it out to him his
response was "Spoken like a true Christian!"
At that point, I knew that he knew the gospel message,
but just didn't believe or receive it. We finally gave up on
this tactic and never again tried to witness this way to
him. Instead, we heard the Holy Spirit say just to live the
gospel and let our light shine and allow the Holy Spirit the
chance to do the convicting. Well in the course of time,
this man's life began to go down hill and he began having
demonic visitations in his room at night which frightened
him out of his wits and he began staying with us rather than
go home because he said the only place he finds relief and
safety and comfort and love is our place. We accepted him as
long as he wanted to stay and shared whatever the Holy
Spirit was telling us to share and he said everything we say
comes true and he knew we could not be making this up. He
finally came to us on a day that God told my wife in the
morning "Remember this day" (June 6th 2009) and that evening
after our work was done and we were alone with him, he asked
us to pray with him to receive Jesus as his Lord and Savior.
So it wasn't our skill with the sword that won this
brother to the Lord, but God's skill with His own sword that
took out the enemy and allowed this wounded man to be
rescued from the enemy whom this man became able to see was
indeed an enemy and liar while the Christian
God is the true, loving Father. He now attends church
at David Jeremiah's church in So California with his then
girlfriend now wife who he was broke up with back when this
all was happening and was part of his life troubles. We were
instrumental in getting them back together as we waited on
God to tell us what to tell him etc. We sang at their
wedding...