Follow-up to Homeboy Gospel

Please read this AFTER you read our initial post called Homeboy Gospel.

Okay, now that you have read our first post, we will share what we found out tonight. As we were sharing our story with the career missionary here in Costa Rica, she immediately asked, "Was his name Ronnie?" He has been around for years giving the same lines to all Americans that he meets. In fact, he has hit up all of the career missionary's family at one time or another. Another career missionary also chimed in that Ronnie had threatened to kill her one time before because she had told other people not to give him money because he is a scammer.

Of course, John and I knew that he was a scammer and this is no surpise to us. We told the missionaries what we shared with him. And someone chimed in, "it won't do any good. He's never gone change."

I quickly replied, "God can change anyone."

At first I felt discouraged that we shared with such a crook with seemingly no hope!

But if we aren't sharing with those who are in the deepest of pits....like drunks, scam artists and sex addicts, then what are we here for? And if we don't have hope that God is going to change people from the inside out, then what are we sharing? The Gospel is truth and it has the power to transform people radically. Only the Lord can turn the worst of addicts into the holiest of worshippers. Only the Lord can pull a has-been off the street and use him to bring His glory to the nations. God is in the business of restoration and if we aren't living it or believing in it then we might as well just go home.

We are going to pray for a mighty working in this man's life and we have every intention of making our way back to dowtown San Jose' very soon to meet up with our old friend, Ronnie, again.