he was ‘signing his life away’. And yet, plea at the drugs hearing, the pros- Now he says, ‘I don’t think a day has
despite 34 previous convictions, he ecutor said, ‘I’ve never read a more passed since then when I haven’t
was bailed! frank and honest statement and I’ve been working for the Lord.
nothing to say against him.’
He was clearly impressed by the ‘I praise God for the life I have now.
transformation of his friend. But it So Steve went into a church to thank I’m free and, as the years go on, life
was in a pub garden that he had a God, saying, ‘God, if you are real, gets better and better.’
life-changing experience. His 18- thanks for giving me my life back and
month-old daughter screamed in terror a new start.’
because she couldn’t see where he
was for a moment. ‘I felt emotion and
love for the first time in my life as a
dad should for his daughter.’
We believe… in the Bible
And it was the same for his wife and
his other two children – they have The Bible is God’s manual for life. Eve- We believe the Bible because…
since had a fourth child. ‘I knew I was ryone knows what happens when you
a different person.’ try to build flat-pack furniture without • the life-giving power of the Word of
looking at the makers’ instructions. So God never changes
In court on the burglary charges, the why try to run your life without follow-
judge said he had been assured that ing the Creator’s instructions? • it is the supreme revelation of God
progress could be made in his life. to the world
And when it came to changing his Elim was born at a time when modernist
theologians had lost faith in the Bible, • its 66 books, though written by over
and the Church, for the most part, lay 40 different human authors in three
immobilised in dead, formal religion. languages over 1,600 years, retain
a close-knit unity of theme and pur-
But God had an answer – the redis- pose. This is evidence that the Holy
covery of the power of God’s Word Spirit inspired the entire Book
(the Bible) and the power of his Spirit.
The founders of Elim were privileged • Jesus himself made it the basis of
to be part of that answer. his teaching and personal conduct
Today, almost 100 years later, their • the Bible alone reveals the way to
spiritual descendants still teach and eternal life and all that we need
live out this double-barrelled mes- to know in order to live a life that
sage. Two World Wars, the atom pleases God.
bomb, and the moral and spiritual
upheavals amid which a new millen- And all these beliefs are found where?
nium has dawned, have created a In the Bible itself.
wasteland echoing with the clamour of
false religions and shrouded in the fog
created by postmodern philosophies.
It’s a place where the old certainties
have been lost in the drifting sands of
doubt. But God’s presence is still the
same!
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