Making a Difference

We recently attended a seminar, which our friend Sylvia had told us about, called Make a Difference, which teaches personal evangelism. Don Sunshine was a police officer, and he now lives in Pennsylvania, but travels all over with his wife, giving the seminars. One place he loves to visit is Daytona Beach, for Bike Week. Yep, he’s a biker.

He used the story of Titanic survivors, who paddled away in the lifeboats knowing there were people in the water while they had plenty of seats left, who carried that guilt for the rest of their lives, some of them to the point of taking their own lives. Yet we know people are headed to an infinitely worse fate than drowning--the lake of fire.

Don had a video clip from an atheist illusionist telling about some Gideon who approached him after the show, handed him a gospel of John. “He looked me in the eye and witnessed to me. Now I know there’s no God, but nobody else has done this. How much do you have to hate somebody not to witness your beliefs to them, if you believe they are going to burn forever?” Convicting!

Don made the whole witnessing experience doable, and pointed out that it is a command.  If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works? (Proverbs 24:11,12)

He recommends praying every morning, “Lord, break my heart for the lost today.” Does he ever have the stories of witnessing to strangers--bikers, food servers, people in traffic! Like Ray Comfort--whose website and literature he recommends--he’s never without something to hand out, in his case, a gospel of John. Personally, I think that’s much longer than most people will read, but if he can get their interest up, great. He’s a character, he’s passionate about the Lord, and he loves people, so he gets their attention. He’s funny, too. Not quite as funny as Ray, but he holds his own.

He mentioned how we as a church have changed the Gospel, so afterward I gave his wife a copy of Paul’s Saving Faith--Does it require a change of behavior? 

May the Lord bless their ministry greatly, and use it to transform Christians’ thinking and actions.


 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Lamentations 1:12