Here's a report from last night. You can read reports from Luke, Mark, and Myself (Jason) below Thanks for your prayers!

**Mark**

Rebuked the Porn man. He was sinning and is damned to hell if he doesn’t change. (Note from Jason: This guy was handing out porn on the streets!)

Talked to another guy who had to run, but I was able to fit in the whole message. That he was going to hell and he needed Jesus because I knew he was because of the way he answered the questions I asked concerning salvation.

Talked to Oedie, manager of Club Hush told me how Deep Ellum was closing down.

Went to club one and witnessed Sodom and Gomorrah on the other side of a black fence.

Saw that William was no longer at his normal hot dog stand. Another man had replaced him either temporarily or permanently.

**Luke**

Talked to Tom, (Tom is a parking lot attendant who we’ve grown to know over the years) Tom passed the news on to us that Deep Ellum was in the midst of a lot of change and many of the clubs were closing down and were slated to be replaced by restaurants)

While Jason was talking with the another parking lot attendant (here after mentioned) further down the street, I talked with people passing by and prayed with a few that were Chrisitians and encouraged them (We talked about how when Jesus went to the Temple when he was 12 it demonstrated from very early on that he knew he was God.)

One of the clubs was having a Halloween party so there were lots of interesting people in strange costumes to talk to . I tried passing out tracts to the people standing in Line but that wasn’t well received. So while Jason was talking to the bouncer, I talked to the “watcher”. I asked him what he was doing and he said he was “watching”. He said that he really didn’t want to talk about Jesus at that point in time. I asked him when a “good time” would be, and he said that was a very good question! Thought provoking at least. I mentioned that my World view centers around Jesus Christ and so for me, all the time is a good time to talk about it because he’s the center (He’s the Lord) of my world. I asked him if he thought that world view was incorrect. Then I asked him what He thought the True world view was . He responded with something along the lines that everyone creates their own reality. I tried to make the point that Truth is defined by what’s real, not by people creating it. At the end of the conversation he mentioned that this had been a real good conversation. Please pray that God would grow the seed that was planted.

Talked to another guy, Mike. He grew up in the baptist church. He had a thurough knowledge of the Word of God. He had definitely paid attention in Church when he was young, but he had stopped going in 9th grade. Although he was very knowledgeable about the bible, he had a callousness towards sin that became apparent in the conversation.( although he didn’t come right out and say that) Certain things that used to bother him no longer bothered him, especially in reference to how he dealt with the opposite sex. Because of his church background, Mike did agree that there was definite right and wrong. He even asked the question at one point whether it was wrong for him to go into the club. (We often answer this kind of question by saying it all comes down to your motive, and there’s probably only one reason to be in an atmosphere like that, and that’s if your intention is to share the gospel with everyone there. ) Please pray for Mike, that God would soften his heart and grow the seeds that were planted in his youth.

**Jason**

Parking attendant dude (I can’t recall his name at this point, but he's different than the Tom mentioned above) and I had a chat. People from our group have talked to him several times in the past. It seems like he knows many facts about the bible and the church and Christianity and has an interest in spiritual things, but at the same time he remains spiritually dead. Luke and I were talking about it afterwards and agreed that it was really hard to gauge where he was spiritually. He mentioned that he had been thinking a lot about re-incarnation and pondering if that was possible. Since he was familiar with the Bible, I asked him what he thought about the verse from Hebrews, where it says “For it is appointed unto man ONCE to die and after this the Judgement.” We didn’t really get to discuss that further because a stream of cars appeared at the point and he had to attend to them.

Then when were were down outside of the club where the halloween party was going on, I talked to one of the bouncers that they had hired for the night. It was kind of obvious that they had hired him for the night because he was older and didn’t look like a regular bouncer. . He was bouncing just for the night, because they needed extra people because of the Halloween party the club was having. I was really struggling swinging any of my conversations to spiritual things, so I prayed and asked God to lead my to someone where that would occur. Lo and behold he answered my prayer above and beyond what I had asked, because I was making small talk to the Bouncer, and HE brought up stuff about heaven and hell, and HE brought up the Ten commandments, which kind of blew me away, because it's not usually the case that someone brings up those things. At one point I asked him what he thought the purpose of life was, and he didn’t really have a clear answer. His basic philosophy was “you live a good life, then you’ll be accepted by God. All you have to do is ask for forgiveness and you’re good to go with God because none of us are perfect” I asked him how bad does someone have to be to be sent to hell? Did he think God was angry sin? What was the purpose of the ten commandments? (since he had brought it up) He maintained that he wasn’t perfect and God wasn’t expecting perfection. (I immediately thought about the verse where Jesus said “Be perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect”). So I told him that in 1 10 year period in the United States 200,000 murders were committed, and only 100, 000 had been brought to justice so far. Was that something God cared about? I pointed out that if we were made in God’s image and we have a passion for justice demonstrated by how much time and money and resources people will spend seeking out Justice, then how much more would a perfect God who created us have a passion for Justice! I had started asking him whether he thought he was a good person, and quized him on several of the Ten Commandments, but unfortunately at this point he was distracted because he was manning the exit door and a ton of people were coming out, and then he disappeared inside the Club for a break. I didn’t have another chance to talk to him, but I was able to leave him with a curved illusion tract, and told him that it had more information about what I had been talking about.

I then approached a big group of people that had just come out of the club and were hanging out on the street. I showed several of them the curved illusion tract and they loved it, so I gave them each one, and this one girl was really open to talking. She seemed a little bothered about something and said something along the lines of “I really need to get out of here, it’s bad in that club with the drugs and the drinking and stuff.” I was intriuged at why she said that so I asked her if she had a religious background, and she definitely had a church background and was very open. I told her that we came up to Deep Ellum almost every weekend to share our faith. She said she attended a church, and mentioned having read Rick Warren’s book “The purpose driven life”. Whenever I meet someone who professes to be a Christian, one of the questions I usually ask is how they would respond to a friend if a friend told them “I just don’t see a need for God’s forgiveness, I think I’m good with the 'Man upstairs' already" She was like, 'wow' that’s a good question. She was really thinking hard about it. I then answered my own question by sharing my testimony describing how I grew up in a Christian home and my parents were missionaries in an organization that did Bible Translation. They spent 20 years to translate the bible for 3000 for people in a langauge group most people have never heard. I personally came to the point while attending a CHRISTIAN COLLEGE where I realized I didn’t have even the slightest desire to read the Bible for even 5 minutes a day. For the first time in my life I really asked some honest questions about what this book said, but even more important, why I didn’t have a desire to read it if it was so important that my parents and so many others would dedicate their lives to the truth they believed was inside it’s pages. I had to face the question that if this Book was true what did that mean for me? And then shortly after that I heard a sermon were the preacher (Ray Comfort ) was talking about the ten commandments (The Message was called “Hell’s Best Kept Secret) and I was very convicted by it, by the fact that under God’s standard of the 10 commandments, I was a liar, thief, and adulterer at heart, and I realized if I died at the very point in time, it would be just of good God, if he existed, to send me to hell. I had been convinced I was a Christian because of my upbringing., but knew at that point that without God’s Grace and Mercy I would go straight to hell. I realized that the Word of God was true and Jesus really meant what he said when he said “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of Heaven.” She basically responded saying, “Wow that really answers the initial question you asked me.” She was so open and seemed very impacted and agreed with me that so many people didn’t see sin the way God saw sin, and that "by the commandment, sin became exceedingly sinful" as the scriptures say. One of the things she had mentioned earlier was that people took God’s grace for granted. And after our conversation she was even more convinced of that. She was really deep in thought at the end of the conversation, and I was very encouraged when she said that what we were doing was a good thing, and said “Keep coming here and talking to people about these things.” Please pray that God would continue to reveal himself to her!