I remember when...

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Pre Pentecost (1977) memories.

I remember watching Kathryn Kulmann on TV every Sunday morning. "I beeeeeeeeeeelieve in miracles."

I remember Jerry Falwell on TV also. "Turn in your Faith Promise Bibles.." I think it was JF who sent me a "Jesus First" lapel pin. I remember reading another book "Sex is NOT love" about purity.

I remember going to a certain church to learn "lessons to the priesthood." I simply wanted to be a Boy Scout and learn to tie knots and build fires like my friends. I changed to the troop my friends all went to at the Methodist church. I never attended Sunday School there ever, which is odd as we used a Methodist owned cabin for the Winter & Summer Scout outings.

I remember seeing a white school bus that had a huge dark blue guitar on it down the same street we lived on. That bus sometimes picked me up. A few times, I heard the horn and did not have time to get out to ride the bus. I did not miss it the next week!

I remember when we would visit my Dad and StepMom (and 4 sons), all 8 of us (three teenage boy in the way back with the hatch open mind you!) would be piled in a Chevy Vega Wagon and taken to Sunday Morning Service. In February, when I had ridden the bus, I felt conviction and went forward to sign a card. Dad later said he saw my name in the bulletin and he was "very proud of my decision." It was one of the few time we discussed God when I was growing up.

I remember attending a Billy Graham crusade. I remember learning Scripture with my friends 2 blocks over, and having Bible Studies on the lawn.

I remember the day I accepted Christ, I missed my bus. Someone in a huge Ford Station wagon gave me a ride home. I remember the empty feeling the next day at school, and Tuesday night at Scouts even more empty.

I remember the day after I received The Holy Ghost feeling cleansed and declaring to my science teacher how I had been baptized at the Pentecostal church.