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September 15, 2008
What’s Your Story?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved. —Acts 16:31

Every believer has a unique story of encountering Christ. Ann, a receptionist at RBC Ministries, told me that she has kept a journal for much of her life. She treasures the account she recorded about her conversion when she was 15. Here is an excerpt. “[I] went to see Billy Graham. I got saved! I’m very happy. . . . When I got saved I felt warmth in my heart.”

Years ago, in a personal evangelism course I taught, I asked the students to write out their story of how they came to faith in Christ. It struck me how different each journey was. Some were saved out of a life of drugs and immorality. Others were church attenders who came to Christ after years of biblical instruction.

Conversions vary. The apostle Paul had a crisis encounter with the Savior that turned him from a persecutor into a preacher of the gospel (Acts 26). In contrast, Timothy was quietly nurtured in the Scriptures from early childhood, resulting in his salvation experience (2 Tim. 3:14-15). No two faith journeys are identical. But each has the common element of turning to the Lord Jesus in faith to be saved from sin and to receive a new heart.

Can you retrace the steps that God helped you take in coming to Christ? What’s your story?

We once were held by Satan’s chains,
Imprisoned by our sin;
Then Jesus Christ delivered us
And made us new within. —Sper

We need more than a new start—we need a new heart!


Bible in One Year: Isaiah 37–39; Proverbs 26:17-28


1,531 posted on 09/15/2008 5:34:49 AM PDT by The Mayor ( In Gods works we see His hand; in His Word we hear His heart)
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On Quill Street

We will
Write poetry
And craft stories
In this house
Here
On Quill Street--
For quill
Means pen
In a language
Most consider dead
And our language
Is life,
As are the words
We will write
Here
In this house
On Quill Street.

We will
Welcome friends
And
Be friends
Here
On Quill Street.
Open hearts
Open house
Where
There will be
Laughter
Where
There will be
Healing,
And poetry
And shared stories
And words of life,
All is welcome
In this house
Here
On Quill Street.

- Joseph Powell

1,532 posted on 09/15/2008 7:44:58 AM PDT by Mama_Bear
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