It was the spring of 1998. I was at work. I can see myself at my desk. I called my mother. I told her....You know, you're not saved in your Baptism. Her response...You're not? I went on to explain the gospel to her & she was open & ready to receive Jesus. That was the beginning...for her. This is her testimony:
Emily accepted the gospel truth in the spring of 1998. Emily repented of her sins and received Jesus as her LORD and Savior. Emily was baptized by immersion in January of 1999 in obedience to God, symbolizing the death, burial & resurrection of Jesus Christ. Emily gave her testimony at her baptism. One of her favorite Bible verses is John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but receive eternal life."
Some things that happened after that:
*She left Lutheranism....in the dust!
*A dear friend spent time with her...showing her things in the Bible and answering all of her questions.
*She went to Bible studies.
*She listened to Charles Stanley on TV, invited a neighbor & took notes.
*She talked to her Catholic neighbor about Jesus.
*She talked to her "Fats Club" ladies. One of them told her that she must be talking about being born again. The neighbor nor the other ladies were interested in such talk.
*She was eager to be obedient and be baptized. So eager that she would have been baptized in the river in the summer of 1998 but decided to wait and be baptized at the YMCA pool the next January.
That's what happened one day!
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