Gospel Message
Kristin
had stayed off Facebook during the years that she was with me. She was back on
it now, posting Gospel messages but also corresponding with men.
She said she shared the Gospel message with them but at least they had other interests.
One of the men she was corresponding with via both Facebook and Skype was an elementary school classmate of hers from when she was ten years old and with whom she had reconnected via Facebook. Once, when I went to her studio, she was on a Skype call with him, so I asked if I could say hello, and sat down next to her. He looked like a nice young man, we exchanged a few words, I asked him about his faith, learned that he isn't Christian, and encouraged him to read the Bible as I suspected that Kristin already had shared the Gospel message with him.
My presence seemed to make both of them ill at ease, so I asked Kristin after the call if she had an interest in him. She said no and added that he needs Jesus, as he isn't saved, and also was hurting because his fiancée recently moved out after a fight with him. But her demeanor indicated that they may have been flirting with each other while on Skype.
Because she had said that he lives in a house and had invited her to visit him in Florida, I searched his name and city online to see where he lives. The first search result was his police mug shot from one of his arrests for dealing drugs, and his address was in a very high crime area of his city. I shared the photo and the crime statistics with Kristin and told her that while sharing the Gospel message with him is fine, she should dismiss his invitation as the ten-year-old boy she knew is now a drug dealer living in a ghetto.
After staying for a month in another building in the studio apartment complex where I was staying, Kristin moved out to an Airbnb, saying that she wants to be farther away from me. But her abuse continued, both via email and in person. Our interaction devolved into a familiar pattern: she demanded marriage; I reminded her to focus on healing as we had vowed to each other and to God; she felt offended and retaliated by hurling insults and false accusations.