Well, it's been a long while since I wrote something on my good ol' blog.  I hope to be updating this more often throughout our Spring DNow Tour.  Well, I did want to tell you a little story about an event I spoke at a few weeks back.  I did a lock-in for a church north of Denton, TX just before New Year's.  Lock-ins and me often don't get a long.  I'm one of those guys that consider lock-ins to be ministry suicide.  There just seems to be too much that can go wrong and we all know about that rule (what can go wrong, will go wrong). 

Well, I got out to the lodge where the lock-in was being hosted and started hanging out with the kids.  At around 11pm, a young lady lead us in music and I was scheduled to speak at 12:30 or 1am.  That's right...in the morning.  Might I add that this lodge's only heat source was the large fireplace.  Well, the musician was excellent, but she wasn't a Kutless or TFK which seem to get your adrenaline moving.  After an hour long "concert" it was my turn to bring the Word.  Now don't get me wrong, I love the Word of God, but sometimes students don't have the same passion for God's word that I have.  With the exception of some OT books and the first chapter of Matthew, God's word really invigorates me.  I knew that these students would have a hard time staying awake to hear some guy preach...I knew that I would have a hard time if I was the one listening at 1 in the morning.

Well, it was so cool.  After spending some time in prayer and starting off with some humor, these students seemed to be on the edge of their seats.  The students were incredible attentive not to what I had to say, but to what God was convicting their hearts with.  That night 6 students repented of their sins and gave their lives to Jesus Christ...3 of them stepped out publicly!  Praise God!  To be honest, when I heard what time I was to share the Gospel I got somewhat discouraged because I wasn't sure how effective the Gospel could be at 1 or 2 am!  God definitely fixed that mentality quickly.

You see, the Holy Spirit uses the Gospel at all hours of the day, with all kinds of people, from all walks of life, in all areas of the world.  Too often do we say "well, that won't work with that person...or that won't work there...etc."  The reality is the Gospel of Jesus Christ works anywhere and everywhere.  I have had numerous conversations with co-workers, ministers, seminary students, and even evangelists that say that certain types of evangelism don't work any more.  Some say that only relational evangelism work.  In fact this summer I had a pastor that said that and yet one of our teams still went out door-to-door doing confrontational evangelism.  The cool thing was that the overwhelming majority of the salvations that occurred during that revival week came not through the revival services but through an archaic style of evangelism that most claim doesn't work any more.  Now, I know the argument that a certain style may not work with a certain people group at a certain time, but the reality is that the Gospel works in every situation.  So why don't we just simply give the world that surrounds us the Gospel...or as one great person put it...Give'em Jesus!