We had been seeking God for a while. We had children. We knew that God's ways were the best ways even though we didn't understand much more than the good morals, the character and the community the church offered and that we wanted that for our kids. We had recently experience a very traumatic loss of a friend and that was added into the cesspool of confusion, pain and wounds that was our life. We did not understand the depth, the width or the breadth of God's love...I don't know if we can ever truly understand that...only desire to with everything we are.
We began to understand thanks to an evangelist. Not someone standing in the town square engaged in rapid fire debate with pagan philosophers or in a Jewish synagogue, but an evangelist like Jesus. He had been away at seminary and came back into town, very excited to see a young couple at our more traditional church (Baptist). Without much delay he was on his way over to our house for supper. To this day he says he had no intention of 'evangelizing' us but the Lord led and we had questions about this church thing and about this Jesus person. As we prepared dinner for him, he explained who Jesus was and how he had saved us from our sins, he talked about him being more than a savior, but Lord as well. He explained what held the church together was Jesus himself and that he was what made us part of the church and the church has a purpose in the world. Robin and I received his message and turned toward Jesus as our Lord and Savior that evening, committing our lives to God. We met with the senior pastor shortly thereafter, we prayed...it was a tearful time as we experienced God's grace and were baptized shortly thereafter as the first act of obedience to our Father and to our King. I remember our friend who had shared the Word with us giving us a big hug, he was in tears...he was just so grateful God had used him.
May we, in our going, be prepared to deliver the Good News and may our peace find children of peace that God has prepared, our blessings rest on many a house, and all in Jesus name to the glory of the God the Father.
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