Conversation with John

I had some Christian music playing today and Emmalee asked me what it meant that "God died on the cross". John started explaining it to her and then started asking me some questions about how people went to hell. You know, John questions like exactly what hell was like and exactly how they got there. Did a metal hand push them there, etc. I told him what some of our concepts of hell are - including "lake of fire" and that some people think it's the complete absence of any presence of God and being completely separated from Him. After thinking about it for a while he said that he doesn't want to go there, he wants to be with God. So I told him that that's easy, we just have to believe in Jesus and ask God to come into our hearts (or something like that - I'm not sure how I worded it.)

So he spontaneously started praying - based on what he'd been explaining to Emmalee about the cross. It went something like this: "Dear God, please let Jesus' blood cover our sins. Amen." He asked me some more questions and I told him about the Book of Life and he's very excited that his name is written there. He very much wants to worship God through music and is excited about being with God.

Is that awesome or what? We've had conversations and prayers before, but I feel like he was really thinking about it and putting it together today. - Especially after his detailed and correct explanations to Emmalee about the cross and its meaning.