Where do you work? “I own a girlie bar!”
For several years, while teaching my evangelism class, I would use the scenario of “the girlie bar response”. This was to help our students know how to handle that situation, when it comes up while they are out witnessing. First of all, when you’re talking with someone you don’t know and ask them a question like “Where do you work?” and they give you such a response, it is critical for you to have the right reply and composure! That person’s eternal life is at stake. If you flinch when they say that they own a girlie bar, or I’m a prostitute, or whatever that makes you flinch, it could destroy your opportunity to win them to the Lord.
Even though I have never had that particular scenario come up during a conversation, I was ready for it! And so it was, when Jun said in response to my question, “Where do you work?”, he said, “I owned a girlie bar”. I smiled and asked him another question, “Are you married?”. He said yes! “Do you have any children”, he said yes! Then, I asked him about their ages and if they were still in school. I changed the subject matter immediately after he said, “I owned a girlie bar”! We went on talking about his family and anything about his life but his girlie bar. About three to four minutes later, he prayed and asked Jesus to come into his heart!
It wasn’t about his sins, but it was about his relationship with our Lord Jesus! I see him, along with many other senior citizens in the area, often at the little restaurant that we both eat breakfast at. I thank God He showed me how to handle myself when a person reveals something so sensitive about themselves. I know years ago when I was younger and not well equipped, I would have attacked the sin or at least been knocked off balance with the response he made.
I’m saying to all of you reading this article that it’s very important that you share Jesus with them and what He says in the Bible about being born again. The verses I shared with him. We call it the 357 Magnum! 1st verse is John 3:3, Jesus talking, “Unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God”. Did you hear that? Jesus says unless you are born again you can’t see the Kingdom of God! 2nd verse, John 3:5 Jesus talking again, “unless you’re born of water (natural birth) and the spirit (that is born gain) he cannot enter the Kingdom of God”. Did you hear that? Unless one is born again, he cannot see and enter the Kingdom of God. Last verse, John 3:7, Jesus talking again, He says, “Marvel not that I say unto you, you must be born again”! Now, Jesus says in those three verses, unless you are born again, you cannot see, or enter the Kingdom of God and you must be born again!
The last question I asked Jun was this, “Would you like to be born again just as your Lord Jesus commands in His Holy Bible?”. Then, Jun said yes. I said to him, pray with me and he did. The prayer was like this: “Lord Jesus, forgive me of my sins and forgive me for leaving you out of my life. I open the door of my heart and I ask you to come into me. Lord Jesus, be Lord of my life. Thank you for saving me. Amen!”
I looked at Jun and asked him, “Where is Jesus right now?”. He replied, while pointing at his heart, he’s in my heart! Jun, who is in his eighties, said he no longer owns the girlie bar. It closed during the Covid shut down. But praise the Lord, Jesus had prepared me to handle his open, abrupt response.
If you have read until this part and you need to be born again yourself, please pray the same prayer and send me a message to my email tcp1976@aol.com, if you prayed that same prayer, you are now born again, with the Holy Spirit living inside you. Just thank Jesus for saving you right now! If you have questions please contact me through my email address or call my international line at the following number 806-416-2313. If you will use a mobile phone your call to me from the US will be free. I would be glad to hear from you. God bless you all!
Tony Poole
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