I was at class this morning (increasingly rare due to other pressures, not least uterine) and at last had the opportunity to greet a chap who's joined since the beginning of the year. His Greek sounds perfect (he's half Greek) but his spelling is atrocious, as I could see from the amount of red ink on his spelling test. That's not important. What is important is that through a simple introduction, and his (to be expected) surprise at our being here, I was able to explain what we do in simple terms.
His immediate response? 'I've never read the Bible but I'd like to! Something about it interests me.'
What exactly interests him I don't know, and maybe it's purely intellectual curiosity, but I'll be giving him a Greek NT on Friday and have asked if he'd like to read it it with me. I think one thing that roused his curiosity was when I said that we meet with students wherever they are - at uni, in homes, in town centres - because there are no restrictions to reading the Bible!
We'll see what comes of it, but I was reminded of Paul to Timothy in 2 Tim 4 - be prepared.
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Great! Hope it goes well. Will pray he reads it and wants to know more!
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