Fellow Bible Students,
Please join us for a Weekend Bible Conference in early 2023. You can register for them at the links below if you plan on attending:
Hot Springs, Arkansas — March 3–5, 2023
Some details may change, but registration is open: >>>REGISTER HERE<<<
Prepare for Persecution: Five Stages of Growth and Suffering
Theme verse- 1Peter 4:12-13
Sherman, Texas — March 31– April 2, 2023
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The Christian Warrior: His calling, combat and coronation.
Theme verse 2Peter 1:10-11
Erie, PA (East Coast) — April 14–16, 2023
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“After These Things …”: A Study of The Church After the Rapture
Note: The 2023 Shenandoah Valley, Virginia and Erie, PA conferences will be combined this year and held at Fairview Bible Church, Erie PA
Gene Cunningham - July 2, 2022
3:16
You know, for me it was I had a deep, deep conviction of being a sinner. I grew up in a Methodist church. We went to church every Sunday. I had all the pins, you know, for going a year without missing a Sunday. And I came away with only one understanding, but it was a good one because it was part of the building blocks that led me to faith, and that was "sinners go to hell." Of course, I thought good people go to heaven. Sinners go to hell. And I knew which I was. There was no question in my mind. The part I was wrong about was there aren't any good people who go to heaven. But still, that deep conviction lasted with me from the age of five to the age of fifteen. I was terrified of death. Whenever I heard of a person dying or a funeral, I was terrified because I knew one day I'm going to die. To give you an idea, I remember at the age of seven we went camping and my dad had built a bonfire and I stood looking at the bonfire at the sticks that were burning. And the thought that went through my mind was, I wish that I could have just been made a stick instead of a human because that stick is going to burn up, and it'll be over. But I'm going to burn forever in hell. I had very strong conviction of that. Well, that worked on me for ten years. In those ten years I just proved it more and more every year. No hope for me. I know where I'm going. And then finally a guy came to me and we met and shared with me John 3:16. And to be honest, I didn't understand it at all. But he said, "Memorize this verse." And I did. And I met up with him two or three weeks later and he said, "Did you memorize verse?" I said, "Yeah, I could quote it. John. John 3:16 "God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life." I went through it didn't mean anything to me. Well, he thought I had become a believer. I didn't understand what the verse meant.
