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Christy's Salvation A few months before I got saved I was
bringing my wife to church on a Sunday morning and evening to
Braehill Baptist. For many weeks I just left her in on a Sunday
morning then went home again. I then started to attend on a
Sunday night where Pastor Moore was the speaker at the time and
was preaching the gospel. On these Sunday evenings I was
starting to get interested in God once again. When I look back at my younger days my
recreation time was spent inside church halls because back then
there was no leisure centres for to spend your time at and a
night out was only to the pictures In the meantime Joe McCandless and Malcolm
Murray were the ushers at the door of the Braehill church and
both used shout to me ‘hi! When are going to get saved’. I use to laugh at them of course because like a lot of the people that I speak to now they are doing the same thing by laughing at God's love for them. One Saturday morning I had to go into the
centre of Belfast on to do an errand, and decided to go into one
of the book stores to browse at the books, and I noticed this
lady telling stories to the children that were there, and of
course me being the person that I am I went over to listen what
the story was about. Surprise, surprise it was about evolution
and I thought what load of nonsense. I think that give me a
kick. That week at the Braehill Church there was
a mission week on and Pastor Wesley Crawford was the preacher.
That Sunday night
was the last service of the mission conference. That Sunday
afternoon I was on edge i couldn’t settle down. My wife Harriett
kept asking me what was wrong and I kept telling her there was
nothing wrong. She also asked me was I going to church and I
said no, but however at 6-20 pm she asked me again and i said
yes. I had remembered that I had just read a verse in the Bible
out of Isaiah 55 verse 3 “
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall
live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the
sure mercies of David.” I then rushed very quickly like a snail and
got ready and headed off to church. I always sat at the back
like most people do, only this time I was paying attention to
what Pastor Crawford was saying and I remember it well. |