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...pretty much told me, ‘Look, you need Jesus, you’re going to hell without him, so I can’t be with you,’” recalls Maskiell, an economics concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He pauses. “Needless to say, I got a little put off by that...
...drinking frequently, experimenting with drugs and making friendships and romantic attachments that he now considers unhealthy. “Back then, I called it fun, but now I call it sin,” he reflects with a laugh. “I began to realize that I needed Jesus to intervene and to point out to me how bad my life was and how much easier and better it could be if I accepted him as my Lord and Savior...
Converts can sometimes make the most fervent converters. Asked how important sharing his faith with non-believers is, Maskiell is blunt. “It’s life or death. It’s that simple,” he says. “Jesus said, ‘I am the way of the truth and the light. No man comes through the father but through me.’ And if you don’t have Jesus in your life, you will not live eternally with God. It’s that simple...
...Grace Street Church with Grizzle and Woodruff. She had begun to shift away from her political involvement on campus and from the friends she had made there. “I thought [church] was going to be totally nerdy, or be all like, ‘I love Jesus, you should love Jesus too!’” Germer says, adopting a high-pitched, mock-passionate voice. “And it wasn’t like that at all! These people are smart. They’re not like, ‘Well, this is what...
...year ago I would have laughed at them,” Germer says wearily. “But I just kind of finally sat down and prayed. And I just said, ‘You know, God, I believe in this. And I believe that You sent Jesus to die for my sins.’ Part of me was laughing at myself for saying it, but part of it just felt so good to commit myself to that core belief of believing in Jesus, believing in salvation through grace...