Sunday, November 11, 2007

Jesus Loves Nazis!


Dear brothers and sisters,
Thank you so much for taking the time to read what God is doing in me and through me.
Thank you so much for all your support and friendship, I could not do it without you!



He doesn’t love me, He cannot love me!

Was Friday night and I was with Deltha and another lady from Mexico called Sigrid giving evangelistic tracts away and sharing about Christ in the streets of Kiel.
Was cold, really cold, I really didn’t want to go out, but it is not about what I feel but about convictions.
I gave a flyer to a big huge guy, when he saw the paper and realized that was about God he gave it back to me.
He said: - this is not for me!
-“Jesus loves you”
- “No, he doesn’t love me”, he answered.
- Yes, Jesus loves you a lot.
- No, He cannot love me
- He can and He loves you (I insisted)
- No, you don’t know, you don’t understand, he cannot love me.
-Yes He can and He loves to the point that He died for you.
-No, no, you don’t understand, he cannot love me, I am a Nazi, He doesn’t love me, He cannot love me, I’m a Nazi, a Nazi, do you know what it means?, I’m a Nazi.
- Well, let me tell you, Jesus loves you, He loves Nazis, He loved Adolf Hitler and He loves you!
- (silence)
- Jesus loves you and me too!

Question: which gospel are we preaching that people think that God loves just “good” people?

The saddest story: The vampire and the mouse…

Was Saturday night and I heard the saddest story I ever heard.
I was with Deltha sharing the gospel in the streets after an open air.
We started to talk to a young lady dressed all in black, and a really particular make up.

We spoke for more than one hour with her. She said that she is a vampire and she drinks blood from her best friend and her own blood. As you can imagine she told us many more things… that we knew already, her father disappeared, the relationship with her mother is not good at all and she doesn’t know who God is, she cannot feel him.
We asked her: what are you living for? She answered: I’m living for my mouse, my pet and friend
Do you know that there is somebody that loves you unconditionally?
- Yes, my mouse, when I’m sad I speak with him and he listens to me.
- Can he talk back to you?
- No, but he knows that I’m sad and he plays with his nose in my cheek. He is the only one that loves me.

Deltha and me we had to hold back our tears.
In my walk with Jesus I heard a lot of stories and some of them very sad. I heard stories (when I was in prison ministry in Uruguay) of people killing each other, prostitution, gays crying in the nights, unfaithfulness in marriages, but to listen a 14 years old lady saying that the only thing that she lives for is her mouse, and that the only “person” in this world that loves her is her mouse, is the saddest story that I ever heard.
She said that the only love that she knows is the one from her mouse to her. Sad!
When we told her about God’s love for her she asked:
- Can God love somebody that dresses all in black with this make up and piercing?
- Yes, God loves you.

We gave her a gospel of John and she promised to come to visit the ship.

Question: Which gospel are we preaching that people think that they need to dress in certain color?

Frutos Latinos

Two girls from Ecuador came to visit the ship and we were talking especially about God.
They said: “we believe in Jesus and we know about the salvation in Christ, but we never gave our lives to Him”.
We talked for almost one hour and I asked them is there anything that is stopping them from the gift that God has? – No, they answered.
-Would you like to accept Christ as your Lord and Savior of your lives?
-Yes
That afternoon Soraya and Vicky gave their lives to Jesus and now they are sure that they will spend the eternity in His presence.
We are going to start a Bible study with them and their friends.

Question: Is that the beginning of the first Christian church in Kiel for Spanish speakers?

About my future:

My commitment with the ship ends on February the 8th 2008. Thanks be to God I was invited to a missions conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan for a period of one month.
And I will have the chance to discuss personally the possibility of studying theology there in the near future.
I would love to participate in the conferences, not just because of the experience that I will get there but because of the unique opportunity to share all what God has done in my life and to motivate them to live for Him, with Him and go into missions.
As you can imagine, I cannot do it alone, I need God’s provision and He opening the doors for me to go. One door is the money for the plane tickets and for the VISA, and this is exactly the second door that needs to be opened, the visa for the United States.
I want to invite you to pray about it; maybe you can be an instrument of God’s provision in my life.

Prayer requests:

1-
For the people of Kiel, that they may accept God’s Grace.
2- For the Latinos- those who are accepting Christ and for the Bible Study in Spanish.
3- For Support for the plane tickets and for the VISA for the United States.

Thank you so much for all your love, and support, thankyou especially for all your prayers. God bless you and let’s keep in contact!

Alex <><