Shooters

I was hanging out with a few friends the other night at a place called Shooters.  I have been hitting the late night scene doing some faith-sharing and passing out my Embrace cards.  In walks in one of my buddies, Kegan, who has been doing the same thing when he goes out, faith-sharing.  He was with a group shooting pool and throwing darts.  I think Kegan has the gifts/graces for ministry to someday plant a church.  Kegan has a heart for church-abstainers because he was once one of them until he came to faith through Alpha at Centenary UMC.  He came over to me during the course of the night and said a guy got right in his face and told him how bad he was at pool.  Kegan just looked at him and agreed in a non-confrontational way.  However, the gentleman, who was 58 years old and was not intoxicated, kept saying it over and over again.  He told Kegan he wanted to fight him and of course Kegan said no and kept saying it again.  The guy eventually walked away from him and Kegan came and told me what had happened.  About twenty minutes later the guy came up to both of us and got in my face, I mean right in my face.  He kept calling me some nasty things and at one point I thought he was going to hit me.  I told him I did not want to fight him.  I was getting really annoyed but the Holy Spirit began to tell me that there was something seriously wrong.  I started praying out loud and as I prayed Kegan started praying… I knew the guy was battling some inner demons.  I don't know a whole lot about spiritual warfare and nor do I claim to know but I knew this guy was in bondage to Satan.  As we started praying he got quiet and there was a conflict going on inside of him but once we quieted down he would start again.  I have experienced something similar to this before at a prayer meeting Embrace held in it's beginning stages at Woodland Park.  When "Hillbilly" came around bringing his ruckus before we started praying.  I knew something was wrong and I began to pray.  When I was praying he would back off and leave but as soon as I stopped and someone tried to talk with me Hillbilly would come back with his craziness.  I told Kegan that I didn't think it was a coincidence that he picked the two guys he picked to mess with out of a place filled with at least 100-125 people.