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Last night I got to talk with my friend Nate about the whole "witnessing" thing and he said that he wanted to try it out and see if he loved it as much as I did. We went up to the school and started walking around talking to people and God definitely was convicting hearts before our very eyes. At first Nate was a little nervous about starting up the conversation, but once he got going with it he was definitely pouring himself into it. We got to talk to a couple library workers, a guy and girl, two different groups of guys, then one big group of like 7 or 8 guys which was awesome. Nate and I ended up spliting up halfway through the night because we were talking to two separate groups of guys next to each other and God had ordained it. I went on to talk to the group of 7-8 guys and asked them the question, "What happens after death?" and got varying responses. Then when I asked where they were going, they thought I was going to kill them out there. I told them about the guy we talked to the other night who could have been the guy the cops were looking for and they thought that I was trying to hide the fact that it was me and I was the guy. We all laughed it off, then began discussing what the Bible says about being saved. A few of the guys were trying to get into some frats so I talked to them about how Nate had been into that stuff with all the partying and that now he does a Bible study in the frat. As I was describing how he gave his life to the Lord because God worked on his heart, he came walking up. I introduced the guys to him and he explained it all to them....sharing his testimony. At one point he asked, "What is the purpose of a frat?"....to which one answered, "Brotherhood". Nate asked him what kind of a brotherhood is it if I have a problem and when I share it with a brother all he says is, lets go get trashed and forget about it....then the next morning I still have the problem....to which one guy said, "you have more problems actually." It was very cool. They all agreed that true brotherhood is when you can share your heart with somebody about how your struggling and need help and they help you out...not hide the problem. The night was great and we left feeling great about it all. A few people told us they were definitely coming to the house for our Bible study/fellowship group on thursday nights. God is so good.

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