God Still Works

Our pastor is on a missions board, and they are having candidate school this week. On Sunday, one of the candidates was at our church. It was absolutely amazing to hear how God works. The man is from Lebenon. He did not believe in any religion because "it makes a strong man weak." At the age of 14 he was enamored with Karl Marx and started a communistic group at his school. He was even responsible for burning down a truly Christian ministry's building and destroying the ministry. At the age of 17, a man came up to him and asked him if he would like to know about the kingdom of God. This man said, "Yes, but only if he were shown strictly from the Bible." For the next several years he then became a Jehovah's Witness. One day, he was studying a passage of Scripture for his Bible study group. It was Romans 1:16. In a nutshell, it says that salvation is through Christ. He came to the conclusion that Christ must then be God, and salvation is through Him. He had a 4 hour meeting with the elders of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and then left the religion. He then sought out a truly Christian ministry that he knew of and went to a meeting. At the meeting was the man who was in charge of the ministry that had been previously destroyed. He said that he knew that this man who was telling the story would get saved because he was so much like Saul. He had been praying for the man's salvation for ten years.
There is a lot more to this man's story, but I don't have a whole lot of time to write, so I will probably save it for a future posting.