About

I came to Christ through the ministry of an independent Baptist church. The church was advertising Revival Services. Having been raised a Roman Catholic, and attending only Catholic schools from grades 1-12, I became curious about these services. Though unknown to me at the time, this was a Spirit-implanted curiosity that would lead to a complete revolution in my thinking, being satisfied and somewhat arrogant in my erroneous Romish training that we Catholics were the one, true church.

I attended and heard a visiting minister preach that all are sinners, that one sin is sufficient to damn a soul, and that Christ alone could save sinners. Further, that salvation is not a divine and human effort; but that one can only come to Christ by renouncing all attempts at self-righteousness through religion and/or moral reformation.

The negative comments about religion struck at the heart of this Romish sinner, since, as noted above, I had been taught all my life about the superiority and unique position of the Roman religion as the only authoritative interpreter and the arbiter of biblical truth. However, I had never heard anyone (including a priest) speak with such simplicity and clarity and authority from the Bible, quoting the Scriptures to defend every assertion , including those I should have found most objectionable. I thought within myself that I should be angry and resentful with this man who has attacked my religion so mercilessly and dispatched it so thoroughly, and yet I was not. So convincing was the work of the Spirit, that in a single hour I renounced decades of false teaching and, just as the apostle Paul instructed the Philippian jailer to do, I believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and his work alone for my salvation. Some weeks later I was baptized, having been shown and convinced that my infant baptism was not biblical, given that it was predicated on the doctrine of baptismal regeneration.