… who lives with you, as yourself – Leviticus 19 :33-34.

The only thing better than going to the Museum of the Bible was bringing non-Christians there! Here we were walking in a recreated Nazareth village and we saw a description of hospitality.

Love the foreigner…

One student shared how he had been in America for two years, but he didn’t have any friends, except for now the Chinese Christians reaching out to him.

We had lots of great conversations and clarifications with our seeking friends. We saw how forgiveness was powerful for rescuing people in prison, I told them what I had seen when I worked there.

We sat at a table and saw the universality of Christians with different meal time thankfulness from across the world. We kind of experienced the Old Testament as we walked through the Red Sea.

My (Fred’s) most difficult conversation was trying to explain the American revivals in the 1700s and 1800s. I prayed as an atheist student openly shared his ‘faith’ in Psychology and his distrust of religion (he was from a Muslim culture, very understandable). But a non-Christian quickly defended religion!

I pointed out that Jesus was very opposed to the religionists in his day, and that instead of religion, I suggested we each need a direct connection to God to cope with the confusing issues of today.

In the end of the conversation, we left respecting each other, open to more dialog, and I think very curious about us Christians who don’t believe in religion, but who believe in Jesus.