Last Chance

This weekend I got the chance to witness to one of my co-workers. I had previously talked to him about my beliefs about a month before, and thought it was a good time to continue with the discussion. It was the last night I was going to work with him, and I felt like it was my responsibility to talk to him about it one last time.

He told me that he was an atheist, but that he used to be a Christian when he was younger because he was raised as one. I tried explaining to him that being a true Christian meant you had accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. Being a very stubborn person, he decided to "gently" tell me that I was stupid for believing such a thing.

Feeling discouraged and at a loss for words, I quietly sat there and listened to him argue with everything I had said. Here's just a few of the comments he had for me:

I can't trust anyone but myself, so why believe in a higher power?

God didn't just show up out of no where and create the entire universe.

There's no point to life, really. Nothing happens after we die anyway.

If I was a Christian I would be unhappy.

The Bible isn't exactly a text book.

....Well, needless to say, I was a bit frustrated. I tried one last time to convince him of the life-changing news. Unfortunately, nothing I said registered the right way in his mind. I guess that's how it works sometimes. I can only hope and pray that someday what I said might come up again. Maybe he'll realize what he's missing out on. Maybe the only thing I was supposed to do was plant the seed.