LB honors us with her testimony of finding God’s grace:

I have been coming to your church for over 5 years now….I heard your message yesterday and I felt compelled to write and say, Thank you.  You said something that has stuck with me since yesterday and I just kept thinking, If Clark wasnt obedient to God’s calling on his life…How many people would still be lost. When God told you, “I have no one else,” I truly believe he meant every word of that.

You see, I was raised in a Southern Independent Baptist church that was dripping with legalisim and performance.  I was taught that I was saved by faith, and secured by works.  How sad it was for this little girl, wandering through life fearfull every day that perhaps I hadn’t done “quite enough” to secure my salvation. There were many nights I cried myself to sleep hoping I wouldnt die that night incase I needed to work harder, or be a little less sinfull to “make it” to heaven.

I completely gave up on the church in my late teens.   I remember being disgusted by the church in general, and feeling like it was plum full of hypocrites, and being led by control freaks who just wanted to keep people under their control.  It was around that time that I read the book, “Grace Awakening.”  I remember, once again, crying and feeling so relieved, even though that book was baby food compared to yours, it was the first I had ever heard of Grace. After that I was addicted.  Like a fiend, I couldn’t get enough of this new message, and I spent years studying on my own the message of Grace.

When I started to come to Grace church, I would hold my breath every Sunday waiting for you to preach performance/works, just knowing that you had to let me down as all pastors in the past have…but without fail, every week, you shocked me with Grace dripping from your message, and pouring from your whole person.

This message of Grace, is so new to our generation because it has been squelched by leaders in the past.  When God told you he had no one else, he wasn’t kidding…Without you standing up there, doing as God asked of you, Preaching the message no one else is BOLD enough to preach, I would have remained an angry bitter lady against the organized church.  Now my children never have to grow up in fear as I did.  They never have to know the uncertainty of, “Did I do enough today to earn my way to Heaven?”  They get to start their lives in the FREEDOM of Grace and the Abundant life that God intended for us all.

Wrapping this letter up, Thank you Pastor Clark, for being faithful to God’s calling and being strong enough to SAY this message of Grace every week knowing that there will be many “Spiritual Giants” who will be angry or argue the validity of Grace.  Dont ever stop shouting it from the pulpit, and I will continue shouting it in my home, neighboorhood and among my peers.  After all, God doesn’t have anyone else.

LB

That is wonderful LB! Thank you for sharing your experience.

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