The Church in Spokane
TestimoniesIt Changed my Life!As an unbeliever I lived life to what I thought was the fullest, because when you die—that’s it. At the age of 23 I received Christ as my life. I was so happy to find out that Christ could now be the center of my life and spontaneously I began to love Him and enjoy Him. All I thought about was how wonderful my Lord was. It was as though I was on fire and had a burning love for the Lord. I strongly desired fellowship with believers and sought to surround myself with Christians. As a result of my desire I quit my job to take on a new job to be in the center of a Christian activity. Within a few months I was fully disappointed with where I found myself. In the midst of Christian brothers and sisters—some strong, some weak, some leaders, some not—I found no fellowship to feed my inner desire for more of Christ Himself. Nothing fed me inwardly to help me to love the Lord more or to grow in His life more—and actually the burning desire I had inside was now gone. At this juncture I turned away from Christ in extreme disappointment and began to live my old way of life. Shortly after this time I started a new job and worked with some sisters in the Lord who invited me to a meeting of the church in Spokane. I was very reluctant to go and become involved with something that could eventually be disappointing again—but I did go. It changed my life! I began to love the Lord again, just like I had experienced at my salvation. The Lord was and still is my first love, the Bible was so full of reality and light, and I was brought into deeper and fuller experiences of Christ Himself. So here I am now, 20 years later, and I’ve never been so happy. My Christian life is more than fulfilling because day by day my growth in Christ is increasing through an intimate touch with Him and through living, practical fellowship with the Body of Christ. J.S. |