“Come with me. I’ll make a new kind of fisherman out of you. I’ll show you how to catch men and women instead of perch and bass.” (Matthew 4:19 [show] And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." (ESV)
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A friend, noticing my relatively recent and rapid enlightenment in Christ, asked if I had experienced a near death encounter. A grin came to my face, and I chuckled slightly, because I had. At the age of 33 I died. I died and was born again, through Christ.
To this day, I hold firm in my belief that God used politics to bring me closer to Him. I lost the election, which I see now not only as a blessing but also as God’s will, not only because that’s the way it happened, but because it caused other events to happen in my life which were meant to be. The first causality is that I learned a great lesson in humility. Further, running for office caused me to go to church. Finally, if I had won, then I would have likely never felt called to ministry.
