Go 901: Sharing Jesus by Asking Questions (Mk 10) Chris Altrock – Sept. 24, 2017
Questions Shaped my Life
Do you believe Jesus is the Christ?
Would you preach this Sunday night?
In many ways, those two questions shaped my life from 1984 to the present.
In 1984 Marlon McWilliams asked me that first question as we stood in the baptistry on a Sunday night at the Cloudcroft Church of Christ: “Do you believe Jesus is the Christ?” I answered “Yes!” and Marlon baptized me. That one question gave birth to my salvation.
Later, in 1986, Wesley Lane asked the second question: Would you preach this Sunday night? He wondered if I’d be willing to deliver the Sunday evening message at the services of the Cloudcroft Church of Christ. Barely a Christian a couple of years, but eager to give it a go, I answered “Yes!”
It was my first sermon. I prepared diligently. I hand wrote pages of notes. I was certain it would take up the full 30 minutes I’d been allotted. My delivery was a blur because I was so nervous. When I stepped down, and we sang the invitation song, and I looked at the clock on the back wall, barely ten minutes had passed from the time I began my sermon to the time we sat down after the invitation song. Still, it was my first taste of preaching. Something I’ve done now for 25 years.Read More »Go 901: Sharing Jesus by Asking Questions (Mk 10) Chris Altrock – Sept. 24, 2017