The robed stranger

For the past month, I've noticed a tall white man with a long brown beard (Gandalf style) wearing a blue robe walking around inside the library and nearby it. I had seen him at least 6 times, at various places, and always wanted to approach him, because I suspected he was a Christian, and also homeless, and had seen him with a little travelers Bible. Finally, after getting some grub inside Fatima, I noticed him sitting in the seating outside the doors and determined to introduce myself. He smiled warmly and offered me a seat as we talked about our lives. He was older than I suspected--about 35 (when I thought he was in his late 20's.) He had previously been a truck driver, back east, but felt God was calling him to walk prophetically as a homeless evangelist. He has spent time street preaching, and even challenging authorities with the word of God, i.e. he once went to WB and told the security guard that he'd like to speak to the manager, and when someone came out, he calmly told him that WB needed to repent of making shows that were displeasing to God, and had a gracious conversation about it for a couple minutes. The impression I got of his preaching is that it is usually one on one, and is very gracious--he'll calmly ask people to repent and talk about Jesus with them. This is the style of street confrontation that I would feel most comfortable with doing myself. Stephen (perhaps he was named after the first martyr--indeed he has a desire to be martyred for his faith) spends most of his time during the day praying and reading and talking with people. As we were chatting together in the early evening, several people walked by and greeted him by name. One of them, named Jerry, sat down and talked with us for a while, and Stephen noticed that he had a black bag with pornographic magazines in it. Stephen calmly mentioned to him that it was not pleasing to God for him to view women in that way, and he immediately got very defensive, explaining how he believed that it was ok to masturbate and use pornography, and how he used to be involved in the normal entertainment industry, but couldn't cut it, so now he was trying to get into the porn industry. We calmly shared with him that he couldn't continue in this and still have a viable relationship with Jesus, and I shared from personal experience how sexual sin has cut me off from God. Sadly, he didn't accept our concerns in the moment, but I hope that the Holy Spirit will convict him from the conversation. I was really encouraged to be with Stephen--I felt like we had very similar values in sharing Christ with others. For example, Stephen mentioned after our conversation with Jerry how much he appreciated that I wasn't offended by Jerry's "colorful" language.