Hindsight

I received this letter at Church this past Sunday and it was so exciting to see God at work at GateWay!  The first thing I would challenge this person to do is get in a Small Group, get connected with other Christians so they can get fellowship and encouragement.

“Dear Pastor Ed,

I am writing you this letter to tell you thank you. I received Christ into my heart one month ago at GateWay Church during one of your sermons. I was completely lost, full of anger, self-pity, rage and hurt.  I was a broken man and considering suicide.  I let other people control my emotions and my feelings. I was fighting a war I couldn’t win and the devil had a choke hold on my life.  I blamed everybody else for all my problems (poor me).  That all changed in an instant when I received Jesus. I was healed, it is an absolute miracle!!  God now fights all my battles and he guides me through every decision I make.  I’m still a sinner and I still have problems but now I let God takeover.  What a feeling!!  Thanks you for your role in this miracle I believe God worked through you that day in church to speak to me and I finally listened. My wife has always been a Christian and all I ever did was judge her and tear her down, but now she saw the miracle in my life and it’s amazing how Jesus works through other people to get his message out there.  I could go on for hours about what’s happened to me but I won’t.  Thank you so much GateWay Church!!”

Receiving Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior is a supernatural act of God in which  we all get to participate; from Greeters to Café to Ushers to Sunday School to music to speakers to sound techs, we all participate with God’s purpose!  

That’s what being Biblical, Radical and Viral are all about this year at GateWay.