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MARK KEITH, Senior Pastor
I was raised in a Christian home and cannot remember when we didn't attend
church. At age 11 I joined a Baptist Church. The preacher had been preaching
on hell and I decided I wasn't going there so I went forward, shook the pastor's
hand and was baptized. The problem is I had joined a church but I still did not
know Christ. At that age I wasn't trying to fool anyone, I just thought church
membership equaled salvation.
As a teenager I began to feel what Billy Graham calls "cosmic loneliness." There
were times I felt so alone, that something was missing in my life. I tried filling this
void with things. What I discovered was missing wasn't something but Someone!
At age 14 God convicted me of my lostness and rebellion against Him. By 19 I
had run as far from God as I could. On Easter Sunday 1973 I realized that Christ
died on the Cross because He loved me. My heart was broken. I repented of my
sins and asked Him to save me.
That morning I began a relationship with Jesus Christ that has brought great joy,
meaning and purpose to my life. I am finding daily what a great Savior Jesus is. I
still struggle from time to time but His strength and grace sustains me. Church
membership will not get you to heaven but a relationship with Jesus will!