I'm sad, close friend rejects Truth
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Well, after four years, I finally had the opportunity to pour my heart out about the gospel to a very close friend today. I spent all morning writing a personal letter, and leading up to this I was praying for the right oppotunity to do so. Here was the reponse I got back.
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"I didn’t think it was insensitive, I just didn’t want to talk about it. While I know you have my best interest at heart, I don’t want to talk about my faith, or lack thereof, right now and I ask you to respect that."
That was the entire reponse, and I wrote for hours ( I was thinking as I wrote so It wasn't an hours long letters, but It took me a couple hours to put it all together). Well, Jesus knows I did my best, and I realize it's usually seed planting, but I am soooo sad, because I love my friend so much. Honestly, I think he thinks I'm nuts and tolerates me b/c he knows I am a nice person who genuinely cares. I've always been very respectful and never pushy, but of course I stayed completely within the gospel today and personalized it and didn't water it down at all. He just lost his grandmother and father in the last couple of weeks so please keep my friend in prayer. I sent him a bible last month, and I did have an oppotunity to refer him to some passages in it in my letter. Maybe he will read them someday. I've lost ALL my unsaved friends over Jesus, and it's all worth it.