When I left home and went to college, I have to admit, not a whole lot had changed in my life. I was, in fact, going to church a whole lot more than I ever had before in my life, but honestly, I was still living the life I'd lived before I uttered the words of the "Sinner's Prayer" the only difference was that now I was referring to myself as a "Christian" and attending a school of theological studies.

If I were to share the "truth, the whole truth, and nothing BUT the truth" version of my story - I'd have to let you know that the main reason I was going to Bible College was because they were basically accepting anyone who could get a loan or grant to go... I didn't have the GPA to even get accepted into a University in my home state of Wisconsin. Not to mention the fact that I couldn't afford the application fees, so I got my Pastor to vouge for me as a "Good Kid" and they accepted me without question.

Before leaving home, my girlfriend saw me off in the fashion that most do when their boyfriend is going away to college - for the sake of some who are reading these words, I'll just say that we sinned. And the long / short version of the story is that I was living a life that did not demonstrate a true conversion according to scripture - if anything I was living a life that is described by Jesus Parable of the Sower - where He talks about the "seed that was sown among the thorns." The gospel had been shared with me, but I was not warned of God's Judgment.

As I got acclamated into school, it was a little easier to live a "good life" though there were trials. You see, everyone around me was trying to come off as being holy, so it was easier for me to act holy. The same is true when a person gets in with a bad crowd, it's easier to get into theivery if you hang out with theives.
(1 Corinthians 15:33 (NKJ))

The reason I didn't even try to get into a state university is because I was a bad kid - a bad student - and a bad son - everything the book of Proverbs says a child will become when they are not trained up in the way they should go...



For the first time in my life, as I started my schooling, to a small extent, I was cool. I'm not trying to toot my horn, I'm simply saying that I was finally somewhat popular. My whole life growing up, I was a loser, a loner, with only a friend or two ever really considering themselves to be my friends for any reason.

Which is why I didn't spend all that much time in college - I was having far more fun than I was studying. And taking into consideration the fact that my life was not measuring up to the rules of the school or the Bible

for that matter, it was time to leave because Academic Probation and my attitude against my instructors was going to get me kicked out if I didn't choose to go on my own.

For the next 9 years, I basically lived life on my own terms, calling it Christianity because that is what the churches required, regardless of how I was living. You see, according to the Bible, I was living in idolatry - I called myself a Christian in public, while I was working in Youth Ministry with various churches. While I continued in life as a slave to sin and lived like the devil in private.
1 John 1:6, 8, 10 (NLT)

The day after the Tsunami turned the world upside down on the other side of the globe in late 2004, I found myself sitting in on a seminar at yet another Youth Convention, this time in Buffalo New York.

The speaker this time was one Ray Comfort an evangelist from Living Waters Ministries in Bellflower California. He was sharing a message that would change my life forever. Opening up his Bible, he said to the auditorium full of teens, "If you once said a prayer and asked Jesus into your heart, but never Repented of your Sins, and put your faith in Christ, the Bible offers you no assurance of your salvation." Then he explained to us what SIN is, and why God would be justified in sending us to hell.

It is my hope that you would listen to or watch his message, Hell's Best Kept Secret and do what the Bible says...