Pearl and I went to CLC on Sunday Sept 9th 2001 to see our friend, Emma,
get baptised and re-dedicate her life to the Lord. Unchurched and naive,
we sat right in the front by the pool... only to have church service erupt
around us!
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We were very uncomfortable, me an intellectual atheist and Pearl
a new age witch. Justine lead this awesome and hip modern worship and was
absolutely un-selfconscious in her love of Jesus. I was moved. I relaxed.
And suddenly, God's love flooded all over me.
I was instantly convicted of
my life without Him, living for myself. Floods of tears began to flow. And
I looked at Pearl, and the exact same thing was happening to her. God was
real. He was talking to us both. We could feel His love for us, his forgiveness
for our years of ignorance and arrogance.And, He also showed Himself
supernaturally. A bit later, in the actual service, whilst Pastor
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John was preaching, he mentioned the word repentance.
I thought to myself,
"Repentance! See! There's one of those arrogant Christian words! Repentance!
What's the even mean?" As God heard my questions in my head, He downloaded
them straight to Pastor John, who stopped mid-sentence, received, and replied.
"For those of you who don't know what repentance is, it's simply that you are
going your way in life, and you stop and decide to go God's way instead."...
I was hooked. God had me. Pearl gave her life to Christ and was baptised the
following Sunday. I followed weeks later. And we've never looked back.
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