Kitchens and Dark Parking Lots

For some reason, I have found that a large percentage of substantial conversations happen in kitchens and parking lots late at night. The kitchens I can sort of understand. People just hang out in kitchens. It's where the food is. It's where Mom is (traditionally). I've been at more than one lock-in, at 2am, in the kitchen, talking to youth about life and God. I talked to my parents about college at the kitchen table. Dad talked to salesmen at the kitchen table. And whenever there is a family gathering there is a group in the kitchen talking about something interesting. For whatever reason significant conversation happens in the kitchen.

But I have also had many conversations with people in parking lots late at night. We'll be on our way to our cars and just as we are about the go our separate ways we begin to talk about the world, life, religion, and politics. And we'll end up standing there for over an hour, talking.
It happened to me tonight. I was leaving the church after going to the praise band practice. Two other guys and myself starting talking about how crazy the world seems with the economic "crisis," the election, and everything else in the world. Somehow we started talking about religion too, and we got onto the subject of evangelical mega churches and altar calls. We actually started talking about the Gospel!!!! We even talked about Law/Gospel.

The Gospel is to be proclaimed to all people everywhere. And sometimes we have to stand around in a dark parking lot for an hour before the opportunity comes.
The moral of the story: If you want to proclaim the good news to people, you have to be with people, wherever they are, whenever they are.