Alive Magazine July-August 2014 | Page 20

i " used to be a CONVERT " Hello. My name is Tim. I used be a convert. I came to Christ on Sunday, July 8th, 1984. I walked into Northview Pentecostal Holiness Church as a rank, manipulative, egotistical, prideful, sneaky, mean, drinking, doping, carousing sinner. I walked in that night with my ‘sweet, handsome good boy’ face on because my only purpose of being there was to endure the church service until it ended because when it ended I was taking the preacher’s daughter out on a date. I walked in with every intention of walking out the same way. BUT – God had another agenda for my life that night. My life, surrounded and permeated by spiritual death and sin, was invaded by the grace, mercy, and love of God. That night, when most churches had already dismissed, those people at Northview