Delaney the Evangelist

This afternoon I allowed Laney to invite a friend over for a playdate. An hour into their playtime upstairs, Laney rushed down and exclaimed to me, "I just made my friend a Christian!" [I'm omitting her name just in case she wants privacy]. Surprised, I asked, "How did this happen?" Laney said, "I told her all about the Lord and what God can do in your heart and how you can believe in Him and get to heaven. And she wants to be a Christian!" I could not stop smiling. She is so precious. I responded, "Well I think it's wonderful that you share your faith in Christ with your friends because He's the most important thing in all our lives."
Her friend wandered downstairs and said, "Well, I don't think I'm really a Christian. No one in my family is a Christian." So we had a great talk about her family and where she's from. I didn't say a word about Jesus--I just let Laney do all the talking! She said to me, "Well I tried to tell her about God during my sleepover but I don't think she took me very seriously. So I tried telling her again today and she actually listened." I asked, "What kinds of things did you tell her about?" Laney said, "Well I told her about Bible stories and I think they're really amazing and if she becomes Christian she can be with me forever in a wonderful place called heaven. If you're not Christian and you die, you're just dead in the ground. And everyone in my family is Christian so I can be with them forever."
[Tonight as I tucked Laney into bed I asked why she thought her friend accepted Christ. She said she asked her friend to repeat after her: "Dear Lord, I want you to enter my heart because I want to spend eternity with you. I want you to make me a Christian." Laney added, "I told her it was her choice and I wasn't going to force her or anything but I wanted to help her if she didn't know what to do."]
Laney made the same announcement over dinner when her father returned home from work. Jeff said, "Well, first of all, you can't make anyone a Christian--they have to accept the Lord into their hearts on their own. And only God can change people's hearts. But it's a great thing that you share. I'm proud of you. Good job!"
Just when I was thinking, "I'm so proud of the way Jeff raised these two kids to have a solid spiritual foundation..." Max piped up, "Am I a Christian?" Oh, brother.