A Link In The Chain

I once picked up a hitch hiker on the road in NZ who was shocked when he discovered “I was a Christian too”. He has been been traveling south from Whangarei to the point where I picked him up. Every one of the drivers who picked him up had been a Christian. He told me how he had been moved from the point of No Consciousness of God to where he was ready to Decide to Act after talking with me. Don’t misunderstand, that didn’t all happen when I picked him up. Each of the drivers who had picked him up before me had been instrumental in moving him along the continuum to the point of decision making. I just simply used me knowledge of the Engel Scale and my own personal testimony to move him to the Decision to Act. For that man he had moved along the scale quickly over a several hours as he encountered each driver who picked him up. It doesn’t usually work like that. Normally it takes some time to work out our response to God over a much longer time. I just simply used what had occurred before I picked him up to move him to the point of making a decision. The other drivers had done the groundwork for that to happen.