what is most important to you?

When I was growing up, my parents always took us to church. When we woke up on Sunday morning we never asked the question, “Are we going to church today?” We just got up, put on “church” clothes and went. BTW, if I ever DID ask my parents would have slapped my face and told me to get dressed. My dad was our Music Minister and my mom was as faithful as anyone else in the church.

When I was five (5) I began to ask questions about Jesus, mostly because some of my friends were and they were getting baptized and I wanted to be baptized. So I learned the answers and I knelt down by my mom & dad’s bed and my dad led me through a sinner’s prayer. I got baptized and thought it was cool.

When I was nine (9) the cool thing was to be saved AGAIN, and as most people know nine year olds know exactly what “cool” is. (You cannot be saved more than one time. Read John 10:28-30). So at a Vacation Bible School at Calvary Church in Hominy, OK, I asked Jesus to come into my heart. But my prayer was not sincere. Again I was baptized and felt good about myself.

At the age of 16, I was at a crusade in Bartlesville, OK. It was August 28, 1990, and I don’t think I heard a word the preacher was saying. All I remember was that if I did not get saved that night I was going to go to hell. Well, I didn’t want to go to hell. So I went forward at the invitation. A friend of mine saw me and began to talk to me about salvation. He thought I was already saved because I was one of the most active students in our Ministry. He began to talk to me about Scriptures and when he would start on, like Romans 3:23, ‘For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” I would finish it for him, every verse. I knew it in my head but not in my heart. I had even led a boy to Christ when I was in 7th grade without even knowing Christ myself.

That night in Bartlesville, I came to know Christ as my Lord and Savior. I have had no doubts since then. Since then God has called me to serve Him in ministry and I have been doing that for 15 years. God is so good to me even when I am not good to Him (2 Timothy 2:13 reads, “if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself”).

If you are reading this and have questions about a relationship with God, please feel free to send me a message. I would love to talk to you about the most important decision of your life.

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thank You for the cross Lord
thank You for the price You paid
bearing all my sin and shame
in love You came and gave amazing grace
thank You for this love Lord
thank You for the nail pierced hands
washed me in Your cleansing flow
now all i knowYour forgiveness and embrace
worthy is the Lamb seated on the throne
crown You now with many crowns
You reign victorious
high and lifted up Jesus Son of God
the Darling of Heaven crucified
worthy is the Lamb
worthy is the Lamb


In Christ,
Scott
Acts 4:13