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THE PERSONAL TESTIMONY
OF
Looking back on the content of the first 36 years
of my life, I can now see that I served sin, Satan,
and self. In my early twenties, I became a professing
agnostic, if not border-line atheist, although raised in
a Methodist church among lovely people,I heard little
or nothing preached from the Bible of the need to be
born-again and live a changed life.
The brand of Christianity to which I was exposed was more of a social gospel
rather than a life-confronting one. I was not impacted by its message and
therefore plunged all the more into what this present world could offer me.
After becoming a successful young manager at 3M Company, in 1965, I met the
one who would become by wife, Lucette. It is the old romantic story of the boss
marrying his secretary. We would be happily married for nearly ten years before
I encountered Christ in my life. We enjoyed our world-centered life together.
Actually, it was my wife who first came to Christ. Shortly after her conversion to
Christ, she began a prayer partnership with another believer for the salvation of
my soul. I was a tough case considering my background. At times, I was irritated
by her new-found faith. I still liked the French, fun-filled wife that I had married,
but was most intrigued by her new dramatic spiritual encounter with God.
To shorten a rather long story, I came to Christ in 1976. Instrumental in my
conversion was a book and movie entitled, “The Late-Great Planet Earth”
by Hal Lindsey. Prophecy is what stirred my interest in the reality of God being
who He said He was, but it was my wife’s consistent prayers and changed life
that enabled my eyes to be opened to spiritual realities.
At the writing of this testimony in 2014, my wife and I have served Christ in the
ministry for the last 37 years. I have now given God more years than I had given
to sin, Satan and self. After 47 years, we are still happily married
and in love more than ever. At the age of 74, I pray that I may still have a few
good ministry years left to willingly serve the God I once rejected.
Pastor Randy Shupe