2. THE LORD PUT ME ON HIS HEART, AND HE SENT ME A
POCKET NEW TESTAMENT.
3. I THREW THE NEW TESTAMENT ACROSS THE ROOM.
4. THAT NEW TESTAMENT MYSTERIOUSLY ENDED UP IN
MY BRIEF CASE.
5. SINCE I WAS TOTALLY BORED, I PICKED IT UP FOR
A LAUGH, AND OPENED IT AT RANDOM.
6. AS A SOCIOLOGY MAJOR, I WAS
ASTOUNDED AT THE BEAUTY AND COMPASSION OF MATTHEW 25 (A PARABLE AND CHRIST'S IDENTIFYING WITH THE DOWN TRODDEN).
7. I SHOCKED JUDY BY TELLING HER I HAD READ FROM THE BIBLE.
8. THE KIDS TURNED ON THE TV TO AN ALABAMA CHURCH SERVICE AND LEFT IT THERE.
9. INSTEAD OF TELLING THEM TO CHANGE THE STATION, I TOLD JUDY HOW AMAZED I WOULD BE IF THAT “JOKER” PREACHED ON
THE ONE CHAPTER I HAD READ.10. HE IMMEDIATELY ANNOUNCED HIS MESSAGE WAS ON MATTHEW 25, THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS!
11. I JUMPED UP AS THOUGH I HAD WON THE LOTTERY!
12. I ACTUALLY HEARD THE GOSPEL THREE TIMES OVER
THE NEXT THREE HOURS; THE LAST OF WHICH WAS FROM REX HUMBARD OF THE CATHEDRAL
OF TOMORROW IN AKRON, OHIO.
13. DURING HIS “INVITATION,” HE POINTED AT THE TV
CAMERA AND SAID, “YOU THERE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM; GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND
ACCEPT JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR.”
14. I DID!
15. I IMMEDIATELY KNEW THREE THINGS: MY SIN WAS FORGIVEN; THE BIBLE WAS THE WORD
OF GOD; AND THAT I NEEDED TO PREPARE TO PREACH THE GOSPEL. IT WOULD BE TWENTY YEARS BEFORE I WAS CALLED TO PASTOR A
SMALL RURAL KENTUCKY CHURCH!
16. 45 YRS; 10 MO; AND 1 WEEK AGO (JAN. 31, 1971),
I BELIEVED! I STILL DO!
I READ HIS WORD; I BELIEVED HIS WORD; MY LIFE IS STILL BEING CHANGED BY HIS WORD!
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