Conversations with a Buddhist

I shifted from one foot to the other, waiting for bus 8 to come along. there was a guy standing nearby, and i quickly tugged off my earphones and caught his attention, saying "hey, this is kind of random, but i just want to tell you that God loves you." I had been inwardly debating with myself for the past five minutes as to whether I should speak those words out loud to this stranger, eventually giving in to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. He said something in return, and told me he was a Buddhist who had been practicing for three or some years. I asked him if Buddhism brought him happiness, and he replied that it did. We continued our conversation on the bus, and then on the L and he talked about how transformation was possible and that Buddhism made truth attainable by wiping away deception - all possible through chanting and other self-induced efforts. I made some comments, and talked about how I found it impossible to attain truth + transformation by my own efforts; both these things are made possible only because God himself has revealed himself through Christ. It's not anything that I've done, but God's movement towards me. I am sinful, and not by any means capable of self-transformation. When I mentioned that humans are all broken, he quickly commented that not only are we not in a state of brokenness, but that sin is a figment of our imagination. I wish I could have been more eloquent in my conversation with this guy - i pretty much got swamped by his beliefs and didn't really know how to respond well in the short time that we had. And then he asked me for my number, and of course, I couldn't think of a clever way to say no (i should have just said no). Towards the end of our conversation, he seemed to think that I was interested in Buddhism & told me that he'd keep in touch with me. He also pointed out that he didn't believe that Jesus was the Messiah. Fail and fail. We parted ways, and I chided myself for my stupidity. Can't a girl just approach a stranger and tell him that God loves him? apparently not. Oh well, better luck next time.