What is a Christian?

Today was an odd day for me in terms of meeting people. They weren't your normal people that you meet. In fact, most everyone that I talked with claimed to have a relationship with God - of course they all weren't true in the sense of accepting Christ's sacrifice as the only means to be brought to God - but still claiming a relationship.
I met two 7th-day adventist believers today and one that is on fire for Jesus!!! He met us tonight before we started and told us that he really sensed that the Holy Spirit was near. Of course me first thought was "great, now I have to have a deep conversation with this guy about who the Holy Spirit really is!" But, he (Patrick) is a true, born-again believer that loves Jesus and wants to share Him with people. So, I preached the first message on the street tonight and he watched with great enthusiasm. Tony preached the second message and just handed the mic to Patrick to translate, and he did an amazing job. What a gift this guy has for translation!!! He is truly a gift from God, and he is 25 years old, and just wants to share Jesus with people. So, he is going to be there with us tomorrow night and he has a real connection with people. Dude was a drug-dealer before meeting Jesus, now we're serving God together!
It was so funny, because as he translated my second message of the night, he was preaching it with me in french!!!! I loved working with him!!! Such a blessing.
See, my walls of thought about what a Christian (i made the correction here) should be in terms of where they go to church are being torn down. I've met true believers that go to Roman Catholic church in different countries because there is nothing else, but yet disagree with the theology that is being taught. I've met 7th-day adventist believers that love Jesus and want to see His name being spread and not caring about the church differences. I'm seeing that a Christian is someone that has surrendered their life to Jesus, accepted God's free gift of eternal life and loves Jesus. It's not where they go to church, what they think about tongues, or any other issue like that - I love my brothers and sisters in Christ and we need to work together as the body, not seperate powers! More work gets done where there are more hands. We all want to see Jesus lifted high and people come to know Him - fair enough - let's work together! I love my family that will be together forever!!!
On a different note, tonight I also talked with a young man who grew up in a Roman Catholic upbringing, but has doubted many of the claims of Jesus. We had a good, lengthy conversation and I came to ask him the question of what would happen if he stood before God, and God asked "why should I let you in to heaven?" He had no answer except "I was good" We chatted and he ended the conversation after I said that God looks at us in two ways: Those who have His Son and those who don't. He completely disagreed with me, but said he'd take me up on the challenge to read the New Testament and find a different answer to the question of who gets into heaven. Please pray for him, his name is Dario.
We got into many good conversations tonight with non-believers and Tony and I talked to quite a few people this afternoon down in the subway station. Please pray for fruit from those conversations. TOny had a very good conversation with a gay man, please pray that the Lord convicts his heart of what he's doing and that Jesus died for him and loves him.
Please pray for the festivals that are starting here in Montreal. This year is the first World Outgames, which is a huge gay & lesbian festival with lots of olympic-type events. But it is a real burden on our hearts. We are going to go and minister within the festival as it goes on, but please pray for these men and women that have defined themselves by their sexuality and preference. Please pray that God would give them such a dissatisfaction with the evil that they do and open their eyes to Jesus!

Yesterday, Tony & I went into a park. We got to share with kids and teens there, and it was a wonderful opportunity for the children to hear of Jesus' love for them. But as the kid's message was being presented, there was a teenager who sat and listened to it all. His name is Serguy. He is a 15-year old Armanean (I don't know if that is spelled right) with very heavy questions. We sat with him for about an hour and a half and came to the conclusion that he wanted answers but wouldn't accept them. We gave him example and answer after answer, but yet nothing satisfied him. He is really a skeptic. So, we gave his name to a church today that will be following up with him. Please pray that this young man will experience the love of Christ. This is a kid who is very smart, he knows 5 languages and asks very provoking and deep questions. But what do we gain if we get the whole world but lose our own soul?

Lastly, please pray for Montreal. Pray for this darkness to be lifted from the city and that God would infest the lives of the people here.
Pray for His people here. I get the opportunity to speak at People's Church about evangelism and our call to be missionaries to our own cities this week, and this church has about 450 people that attend. Please pray for me, that God would give me wisdom in encouraging these believers and that many workers would help with the harvest here.
Pray for workers! We so desperately need groups of people to come with us on the streets, but people haven't caught a mission for it yet - and this is their Jerusalem!

Question - How are you doing at sharing with the people in your Jerusalem, your area where you live? This is a question for me too.... How are we doing at letting Jesus' name be known among the people that live near us, and with us.
One day - there will be no more need of missions, because everything will be over. But worship will go on forever!!! I want many people to worship Jesus with me forever and ever! Let's step outside of comfort and give our beings to Jesus! He wants to use them for His glory.... He loves you!

I am pray that God develops a love for Him within your soul and that He encourages you to tell others about it - because you love Him so much that you can't shut-up about Him! We've been forgiven much!!!

Please pray for me....

Loved.
Dwight