Kevin Stone - Anniversary Testimonials
Kevin Stone, the Managing Editor of Got Questions Ministries, reading some of our favorite testimonials at the 10-Year Anniversary Celebration, on Friday, June 22, 2012.
Transcript
You've heard the stats, 20 ,000 questions have been submitted in the first five months of this year.
And I'm just here to remind us all that each one of those questions represents a different story, an individual life, a unique set of problems and of course questions that need answered.
So here are some of the feedback that we've got on our site.
Some of these stories that have come back to us, people saying thanks. I'll share just a few of them.
I have to say that as a new believer it's very easy to get led astray. I just wanted to give a hearty thanks to everyone who works so hard to answer our questions.
Your site has helped me so unbelievably much. And I truly cannot imagine where I would be without the guidance of your elaborate, thorough and accurate answers to so many important questions.
I know I can always trust the answers I find on this phenomenal website. It has truly changed my life and I can no longer bear not letting you all know.
I've talked about this website so much, told anyone who might be interested about it. Thank you and may God bless you and everyone involved with GodQuestions .org.
Here's one that comes from Africa. My twin brother and I are 70 years old.
We grew up with a very godly mother and we committed our lives to Jesus at a very tender age.
We served God together as teenagers. A few years later, my brother married an unbeliever and he fell right into the world.
They lived it up, partying and never gave God a thought again. Unfortunately, our ways parted.
He and his wife went to live in West Africa and my husband and I went to South Africa to the mission field.
I prayed for my twin for some 50 years. It was in God's divine plan that he stumbled over GodQuestions .org.
He contacted me and told me full of great excitement of all the answers he had found on your website.
And that he had committed his life to Jesus again and asked him to forgive all his sins and become
Lord of his life. He can't stop studying your questions and answers. In fact, he has printed out some 1 ,000 pages and filed them all carefully under different topics.
I am nearly bursting with excitement so that I have to share this with you. You are doing a wonderful work which has eternal value.
May the Lord continue to use you as you minister to people throughout the whole world. I greet you in the precious name of Jesus.
Here's one from someone who is trapped in a religion of works. I just wanted to extend my gratitude to you and this amazing evangelistic website you have.
God used this website to bring me to saving faith in Jesus Christ. I grew up in another religion and lived that religion for 35 years of my life.
Not only that, but I was living in sin with no fear of God before me. But even still, all those years,
I thought I was saved. I thought I was going to heaven because I believed in Jesus. But in the spring of 2007, by God's sovereignty,
I ended up finding GodQuestions .org. After reading the answers to questions about saving faith, the marks of a true
Christian, and the dangers of a sinful lifestyle, I realized I was a false convert.
My faith was dead. God used your website to save me from the destruction of my body and soul.
I have repented of my sins and embraced Jesus Christ. Also, after coming to Christ, your website immediately then brought me out of the false religion.
Wow, what an eye -opener. I was blind for all those years. Thank you for this website.
It is, in my view, the greatest Christian website, period. I would like to take the opportunity to thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I hadn't gone to church in almost 20 years. I had my doubts about religion and my beliefs in Christianity.
I had been seeking the right religion for some time. I decided that it was time for me to read some of this
Bible, yet had no idea where to start. So I went to the Internet and typed in the search box, where do
I start reading in the Bible? And your website came up, along with 5 ,560 ,000 other websites to choose from.
Yours was at the top. So I clicked it, and it took me to your page. I read it, and it said to start with the book of Mark.
But then it also said, if you're not sure that you're a Christian, that you've been saved by faith in Christ, and have the
Holy Spirit within you, you will find it impossible to understand the meaning of the words of Scripture. I grabbed my new
Bible. I opened it up, and before I read one single word, I prayed to God. I asked
Him to give me the ability to understand what was written in the Bible, and to show me the way to believe in Him.
I asked Him to guide me in my readings, and to allow me to make a decision regarding my faith, and to discover
Jesus. I began reading the Bible, taking notes, learning. It became very clear to me, as I was reading, that God was answering my prayer.
It just happened. My doubts in Christianity are gone. Never again will I question it.
I have no doubt in it. I'm so excited to learn more. Your website played a pivotal point in my life.
And as I see now that God directed me to it, I truly believe that, had I not asked
Him to show me the way, I wouldn't have understood what the Bible was telling me. Thank you so much for helping me to find my way back to Him.
My prayers now go out for the same thing to happen to someone else. To everyone else.
And this is one of my favorites. I have sought the truth in the Scriptures for 30 years.
You and all the staff at GodQuestions .org have done an excellent job pointing out what the Scripture says on its own.
No spin. No agenda. Just pointing to the truth and letting it speak for itself.