Ron Neville
I was raised in a Baptist Church heard the calling into the ministry at the age of 15. When I was 16 my brother was killed in a car accident I rebelled and turned to drugs and alcohol instead of staying in Gods way. When I was 21 I ended up in trouble with the law because of my drug and alcohol use. I was looking at a sentence of 10 to 15 years. Went to court I was sentenced to 1 year at teen challenge (Christ center drug and alcohol rehab). Done my time there, got out and was offered a job at the local assembly of God Church,took that job and started going to their Bible college, sounds good right? Wrong, all this time I still haven’t ask for forgiveness nor did I forgive myself, But I was deceiving myself and everyone else, I was a jail chaplain, I was a youth leader, but I wasn’t a true Christian I would even drink on Saturday night and go to Church the next day finally I thought of the scripture that says you can’t be luke warm, Youre either for me or against me, I decided against Him. Well once again I’m out of Church and doing things wrong, got caught drunk driving twice with in two months ended up in jail again. Once again I got that old jail house religion. Finally after having to be drunk in order to make it through the day and knowing I was hurting everyone that loved me, I went to rehab. This time it worked and for 9 years I’ve been (1) sober (2) Living for Jesus (3) having respect for those family members I’ve hurt. Last year I was very sick (near death) not days or weeks but by hours and minutes. I prayed to God to give the doctors knowledge of what was wrong. I told God I would never again be ashamed of Christianity and do what he wants if he would just give the doctors what they needed to find what was wrong. They found out I was highly allergic to chocolate and it was literally killing me. |