This is the story of a bodybuilder named Morgan. Well, sort of. It’s actually more about multiplication of gospel witness. Let me explain.
Last year, during our final day of the EETN Test Driver’s Competition, Devin Van Egdom, one of our EETN trainers, walked up to a 330 pound man named Morgan to ask him The 3 Big Questions. At the time Devin was being trained by Keith Tinson.
Devin did a great job asking Morgan the questions, and communicating the gospel to him. Morgan’s answers included us being created by aliens, and that this life might be a test to lead us to an afterlife. The conversation ended with Devin encouraging Morgan to consider the gospel message. Morgan expressed a desire to follow up with friend’s of his who had been bugging him to come to church with them.
CLICK HERE to see a sample of this conversation.
Days later, one of our cameramen, Robert Lawrie, sent our group a video of a popular YouTube fitness channel that featured Morgan in a fun weightlifting challenge. You can see that short video HERE
This reminded all of us to pray for Morgan.
Months went by, when out of the blue, Keith sent the group a text with a photo of him with Morgan! Keith had bumped into Morgan while participating in a GO Team at Spencer Smith Park in Burlington. Keith was bursting with excitement to share the news that Morgan had become a follower of Christ!
“Gentlemen, since we last saw him he has given his life to Christ!! We chatted for 25 minutes about what God has done to him… He said he often thinks of that conversations [with Devin]… Our conversation was rich, and we opened the word, talked about salvation, assurance, perseverance… We ended in prayer…It was an amazing experience.”
The whole group was ecstatic. And we have since been in communication with Morgan to schedule a follow up interview once he returns from a bodybuilding competition overseas.
God seems to use people in training to bring folks to the Lord — sometimes more so than us veterans! It’s like he wants to encourage them early in their evangelism journey, so that they know (or we the trainers know) that salvation is ALL a work of God, not the skill of man.
As the Apostle Paul wrote,
“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.” 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 (ESV)
