by MIMADMIN | May 8, 2015 | Testimonies
When GOD moved my wife and I back to Texas after a thirty-four year absence, my prayer was, “LORD, please provide business men for me to invest in, as you have the last fifteen years in the various places we have lived.” Within three months I was leading a small group of guys from the Bible Church Suzanne and I attended. As time went by, men came and went, as they always have, cycling through the various studies of MIM. Soon the group settled in to include a real estate broker who is a completed Jew, a retired banker, a recovering accountant who now prepares cases for attorneys all over the country, an electrical engineer/trouble shooter, turned salesman for an international energy company, a buyer for a giant international pharmaceutical company, a financial planner, a retired international IBM/Data General computer trouble shooter via Skype from Georgia and a certified accountant. A small but eclectic band of brothers slogging our way through the “sticky wickets” of the market place with me, a real estate salesman, trying to lead us to HIS truths. Good times on Tuesday mornings from 6am to 7:30… Once we knew GOD was moving us back home to “The Great State,” I also began praying for a green light to lead an MIM study at the company real estate office I work for. That was April, 2010 and three weeks ago (almost three years later) I was invited by our owner to “git th’ dang study goin’,” which I did immediately. We meet Monday’s from 7-8am. It is a hundred mile round trip for me and when...
by MIMADMIN | May 8, 2015 | Testimonies
Several years ago at a Lost Valley retreat I heard a speaker describe a ministry he had developed with a group of pastors in India. I was intrigued and wanted to take part. Before long I had become pen-pals with one of the pastors – Pastor Mark Baki. For a couple years we emailed back and forth. I was always encouraged and challenged by the intensity of his labor in the ministry. It was on my heart to get to know him better, and so I proposed that we start a bible study over Skype. Many of the Indian pastors involved in this ministry do not speak English well enough to easily converse over the phone, but fortunately for me, Pastor Mark speaks fluent English. Over the past year, Pastor Mark and I have met once or twice a month on Thursdays – morning for me and evening for him. The first study we did was the Why Go To Work booklet from the Ministry in the Marketplace series. I love this booklet because it touches on a wide range of issues, including eternal rewards, the significance of work, and a biblical comparison of clergy vs. laymen. We are currently in the middle of the Establishing Your Purpose booklet. After we complete this booklet, we plan to go through Whose Job Is The Ministry with a small group of the elders in his church. A few months ago, he asked me to speak at an outreach program at his church. He set up his computer and a projector in his church, and from my home I preached the gospel...
by MIMADMIN | May 8, 2015 | Testimonies
When trying to decide how to best describe my situation in E2 ministry, I thought back to when I committed my life to Christ. I became a believer in 1996 when I was a freshman in college under the guidance of a staff member for Campus Crusade for Christ. What came to mind thinking about the past is the amount of time Clay spent with me before I finally put all the pieces of the puzzle together. We met for months on a weekly or biweekly basis until one day, it all clicked and the Holy Spirit revealed God’s plan to me. That was just the beginning- we met so many times over the next 3 years, discussing everything from basic salvation principles to whether we were pre/mid/post tribulation- all the things new believers (and college students) love to debate. After I left school I sort of lost initiative and didn’t really grow spiritually, much less witness to others. Thankfully that period didn’t last long as I was soon blessed to be able to spend time with Hank, a person who spent countless hours with me and other men—even more so than Clay did and I was able to learn from him and use his example to get back into the Word. Because of the time I spend with him, (10+ years!) I learn more than I ever could on my own and using his example, I have been trying to do the same with others. Hank is probably tired of me and my questions by now, I would suspect. Anyway, in all seriousness, I have been meeting with a...
by MIMADMIN | May 8, 2015 | Testimonies
A couple of weeks ago I needed to be in Boulder CO so I called my best friend from High School, Steve, who lives in Boulder to see if we could get caught up. He is a retired orthodontist, very bright and he and his wife are Jewish. I have talked to him about Christ before with no apparent results. As soon as I sat down at his house he let me know that he has been fighting lung cancer for the last five years and was happy that I had called because he wanted to get my take on the concept of an afterlife. We spent the next four hours going through the Gospel all the way from Justification to what the Bible says about afterlife for departed souls. I could tell at multiple points in our conversation that this Jesus talk was not lining up with his Jewish heritage and the Biblical ideas we were discussing were alien to him. He asked me many questions as we talked ie. “My youngest son is homosexual and I have affirmed him, what do you think?” “You make truth sound the same for everybody. Couldn’t it be different for everybody?” “Isn’t it possible that we just go to sleep when we die and never wake up?” And the questions just kept coming. I had some thoughts after my time with Steve. First, I was again struck with the excitement and privilege of sharing the Gospel. Second, was the joy of being asked by a dear friend to tell him about Jesus and finally how faithful God is. You see, I...
by MIMADMIN | May 8, 2015 | Testimonies
Two years ago I was asked to write an article for the YLN website providing a personal testimony for how I perceive God to be at work in Denver, CO. At the time, in my small sphere of influence, God was taking us through a valley of learning. We had a group of men organizing outreach breakfasts, but that fell apart for various reasons, our Bible study dropped to only two of us, and I found myself without a Timothy to meet with. I had come to the conclusion that E2 is the job of the individual and that outreach groups, Bible studies, and the other organized forms of gathering are merely mechanisms for E2. God had stripped us to virtually nothing, but two men willing to be faithful to opportunity. My friend Bill and I decided to start another study, with just the two of us if no one else was willing to come. Our goal was to be faithful, start small, and let God be in charge of the results. We invited anyone and everyone we could think of to our study. We had six men at our first study- five of them are still attending. Those men have invited others and today we are at nine. I have personally gone from zero to two Timothy’s and 3 other men in the group are meeting one-on-one with other men. In fact, we are having trouble finding enough Paul’s for the Timothy’s God has brought into the group. We also have an inductive study that started in March which has stemmed from the main study. Eight men have...
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