“How could you keep that to yourself?”

I had just come to Christ and that was the question I found myself asking a friend who’d known Jesus or at least been raised in the church all their life. I was shocked and pretty angry at the time to realize that someone I’d known for years never once mentioned Jesus. I had no idea they’d ever even been to church let alone been raised in it. When I shared what had happened to me, my testimony, they seemed more shocked than I was. I had to ask some questions.

“Why? You’ve seen what’s been happening with me all this time and not once did you ever share your faith with me. Why not?!”

The answer: “You just don’t talk about stuff like that here.”

“What? Are you kidding me? Well, we do now!”

That began months of intense discussions about the Lord, the Bible, the Church, salvation, heaven and hell.  I bet it felt like they were being hounded. I guess they were.

When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:
 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
 “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
Luke 19:37-40 (NIV)

So are you going to let the stones cry out?

Dina Seaton
dseaton@americaskeswick.org

Dina has served on staff since the summer of 2002 in Marketing and Guest Services. Her first book will be in publication this spring – “Do It Again Lord, Do It Again!”