Jazz and Ice Cream
Theme for the Week: Redemptive Relationships
David Seamands
Monday, October 1, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others (Philippians 2:4).
Bonus Reading: Colossians 4:2-6
A handsome young man knocked at the door of our Bangalore, India, home. A graduate electronics student interested in American jazz, he'd heard about my record collection. I invited him in. Within minutes we were listening to Glenn Miller classics from the big band era and eating Helen's fridge-made ice cream.
Our friendship with this lonely youth, far from his wealthy, high-caste Hindu family, blossomed. His visits continued more than a year, with no mention of religion.
Then one night, as we listened to the "King of Swing," Benny Goodman, he suddenly asked, "Brother David, what does it mean to be a Christian?" I explained briefly, then loaned him a C. S. Lewis book and an E. Stanley Jones tape.
In our ensuing discussions, he was concerned not to deny the good things his parents had taught him. I assured him that to receive Jesus Christ wasn't to deny their ethical teaching, but to find in Him its true fulfillment.
Finally one night he surrendered to Christ. A few months later he was baptizedand immediately disinherited by his orthodox Hindu family.
David Seamands in Healing Meditations for Life My Response:
Which of my interests could God use to reach out to those not yet part of His kingdom? Thought to Apply:
Before you can convince a man of anything, you must first convince him that you are his true friend.
Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. president)
Adapted from: Healing Meditations for Life (Victor, 1996)
Copyright © 2001 by the author or Christianity Today, Inc./Men of Integrity magazine.
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