Last weekend my 81 year old uncle called me for the first time in my life. I lived with him for a year back in the mid-90's and we are on good terms, he just never picks-up the phone to call. At first he left a message without any details and, assuming the worst, I called him back as soon as I got it. He was looking for information about a hip replacement for his girlfriend and thought I could help.
When the call first came through I was instantly nervous that it was going to be an announcement about some terminal disease...I figured he was calling me to tell me he was going to be dying soon. The prospect of his death was scary and sad for me on many levels. He is the last living Uncle on my mom's side of the family and from what I can tell he has no faith in God in any way, shape, or form.
Once we were chatting for a bit I mentioned our trip to Africa and he asked me, in a mocking way, if I thought that the end of the world was near (this is a topic he often would ridicule me about when I lived with him in LA). I told him that I did not know, and that there seems to be a lot of worry about the end of the world but not about the end of our individual lives. He laughed that off a bit and didn't take my bait...I couldn't get him to grab the hook that would take us into a chat about death and eternal security.
None the less, I have decided to write him a letter sharing with him the key elements of the gospel. He has never been very open to these types of chats, and I am nervous about his response, but I felt led to write the letter so I am sending it today.
Please pray for my uncle Paul in LA...that the letter will hook him on Jesus!
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