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Here’s what happened when Myrtle Beach Community Church hosted an early campaign in April, 2007
- Church attendance surged
- Close to 100 came to Christ
- Three college professors joined the church and have begun an apologetics ministry
- Five atheists formed their own group to study the book and “decide for ourselves”
- The church printed God Questions t-shirts, and one entire small group was formed by a lady who wore her shirt and used it to invite her friends
Here’s a story from Heartland Christian Fellowship
”....one of our very sharp young business people has been sharing her faith and her church in her networking groups. A couple months ago a single father started attending with her and I started getting to know him. We had lunch the other day, about a week after he found out that he had a tumor in his brain. At the time, doctors thought it was benign. At lunch, I talked to him about his faith. He said he really had no basis of faith, but that he had started to read a book that this business woman had given him – The God Questions. The next day, he flew out to LA to meet a neuro-surgeon who diagnosed the tumor as malignant and scheduled Jim for surgery. Tomorrow is the day Jim has surgery out in LA. I am so glad that he has had godly people around him as he faces this challenge and that someone put a tool like The God Questions in his hand to help him think more carefully about the thing that matters most.
Hal, I want to tell that story a hundred times over. Thanks for your contribution to the kingdom and may God add His increase!”
Clark H Smith
Heartland Christian Fellowship
Here is the story of Bethany Church, Long Beach, CA
“We started by using The God Questions as training for all our short term missions teams. Many of our people were not only uncomfortable but unprepared to know how or what to talk about with people who had real questions concerning God. We have the teams read a week’s worth of chapters then meet to practice answering the questions together. It worked so well, our team members began telling their friends about it.
As word got around, we started a small group Bible study with The God Questions as the main curriculum. The surprise to many was that these questions were things many long term believers have been uncomfortable with or wondered about for years!
Two guys Bible studies then worked through the book. Sixteen of these guys came in and said, “I have this unbelieving friend with a ton of questions. Could I get a copy of "that book" everyone is talking about?” That is when we had to reorder our third shipment - when small group leaders of students started taking their students through the study with the idea that each student could share with one of their friends as a follow up to the study.
This past week we decided to host an elective class for adults this summer. A doctor and I will be team teaching sessions with the idea that people can put into practice what they learn through the curriculum.
I am excited to see how it spreads even more as we take it to Romania, Peru, Ukraine, New Orleans, Nepal and Mexico.
Thanks for all you are doing Hal; you are making a difference for the kingdom.”
Scott Foster
Pastor of Missions
Bethany Church, Long Beach
What’s your story about how God used The God Questions in your church? Send Hal an email at Hal@pastormentor.com.
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