Your acceptance of my Christianity is ultimately meaningless.
There is only One whose approbation I seek and only His judgement is of any import.
The light of Christ dispels my personal darkness and lights my path.
He has taken my sins upon Him and with His stripes I am healed.
@DevliegerErik Voetbal wedstrijden gaan mij dan weer te ver.
Als je in korte broekjes met 21 andere zwetende, hijgende mannen (aanstellers) een zak vol lucht om een veld heen wil schoppen moet je lekker zelf weten maar ik hoef het niet te zien 😅
To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.
I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.
I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.
One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”
It knocked me back.
I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”
I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.
That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.
I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.
I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.
People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.
I'll tell you why.
Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.
I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.
In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.
The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.
You just have to stop running.
Ah you mean the triune God that isn't found in the bible but rather came into being as a result of the councils of Nicea?
That Triune God?
Yeah I'm not sure accepting the philosophies of men is what qualifies one as Christian, and if so, I'm good not qualifying.
@conservmillen@BasedMikeLee Ah you mean the triune God that isn't found in the bible but rather came into being as a result of the councils of Nicea?
That Triune God?
Yeah I'm not sure accepting the philosophies of men is what qualifies one as Christian, and if so, I'm good not qualifying.
Wat een uitstekende, en beschaafde, vinger op de pijnlijkste plekken van de “vrije” pers, en over de “vrijheid” om met vlaggen van vijandige en repressieve regimes door Nederland te paraderen.
@LeoKearse@PhilipProudfoot I wonder how many Palestinians would bat an eye if a European country were suffering the consequences of their actions in the same way the Palestinians are.
How much aid would Palestinians send and how many refugees would they welcome.
Litmus test indeed.