On Fire For Christ?

Yesterday, I received a phone call around noon. It reminded me of a man named Galloway. He was a security guard at Hawthorne High School. I first met him when I heard him bashing Jesus Christ and preaching Islam to another Christian. He walked toward me. It angered me to hear what he was saying about the LORD. He said in a loud voice, as he walked toward me, "Jesus was nothing but a prophet." I confronted him saying, "Jesus is God, who is coming to judge the living and the dead!" He smirked with a pompous look and walked away.

In my attempts to witness to this muslim, there were several heated confrontations. As I walked into a small bathroom, I saw him snorting water into his nose, bare feet, with his rug, ready to pray. It felt weird walking in on him. He got upset, I was interrupting his prayer session. I had to go number 2. He said his god would not hear him if I was there doing my business. I responded, my God hears me whenever, wherever.
He picked everything up and left.

The last meeting I had with him, was between bells in front of many students. He got loud as he attacked Christ. His goal was to intimidate me. He did, in front of much of the school this day. In a loud voice he said, "You'll be sorry when you meet Jesus and find out He is muslim. As students looked on, I cowered within and found the strength to tell him he had better repent and believe in Christ as the son of God, who will judge the world and turn from his false god. Again, he walked away and I went my own way.

His car had broken down once and he needed a ride. In spite of the tension between us, I offered him a ride. He had accepted. I was able to share Christ with him again but he still refused. He explained to me that he had been a Christian once, but has now found out that allah is the true god. I simply reminded him that perhaps his mother has prayed for him to come to Christ. He affirmed she did. I eventually left that job. I returned and left him Muhammed's Believe It or Else. This was a comic book explaining the beliefs of Islam and their absurdity.

A friend who works at the school continued to befriend him and share the gospel with him. Let me go back to the phone call, I had missed the original call so I checked my message. It went like this, "Brother remember Galloway, another teacher just told me that he was found dead in his home over the weekend. He had suffered a heart attack. Now he knows who the true God really is."

I was shocked for a moment. This man's time was up. Because he believed a lie, doctrines of demons, he payed the ultimate price. Unless he repented, and confessed Christ, he entered into the presence of Eternal Justice without Christ as his advocate. He entered into eternal damnation, thinking he was going to glory. I realize that sharing the gospel is a great responsibility and more than that, a command from the LORD. There are masses serving false gods and living for a lie. These are going into eternal perdition moment by moment! Think of how many are perishing worldwide this instant! In light of all this as Francis Schaeffer said, "How should we then live?"