It was 10 years ago this very night that I was home, at my apartment, contemplating weather or not I REALLY believed that the Bible was REALLY God Almighty’s inspired and inerrant Word. Word Up! What a question to ponder at the tender age of 19. If it isn’t already made obvious by the work I’m doing on this site then I’ll tell you plainly that I did, in fact, make this foundational decision.
It’s one thing to think the Bible as a “good book” with some “good teachings” that have been defiled by interpretation over the ages. It is something entirely different, and many would even call foolish, to believe this ink & paper book to be the direct message to us from the eternal and omnipotent God of all creation. Well I say, if having faith to know and obey the living God who called me to walk with Him is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.
So I took a little adventure with the fam a couple weeks ago to the very place where God powerfully interceded in my Memorial Day camping trip, crushing my tent with mighty winds and crushing my head with a splitting headache.
You might call this place my “burning bush”. Although rather than have me stay here and listen, the Lord saw fit to cut my trip short and hastily send me home to meet the BBQing disciples of Christ in front of my apartment; which led to an invitation to church the following Sunday, which led to studying the bible with Mike Gambeski the following Monday, which led to belief, repentance and baptism into Christ. Now, 10 years later, I am still celebrating God’s outpouring of grace and holding on to His promises.
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