06/17/2026
Here is a wonderful story from Darren Carlson, a pastor in another part of the US. It reminds me of my friend's conversion to Christianity:
A young man in Pennsylvania belonged to an atheist club. The club decided to make a project of it: comb the used bookstores, buy up every Bible they could find, and burn them. He did his part. But for reasons he could not quite explain, he set one copy aside. He would read it first, he told himself — know the enemy.
He started in Genesis and was immediately thrown. The book was not what he thought it was. So he kept reading. Then he began to memorize, not because he was being persuaded, but because he wanted ammunition. He intended to argue Christians out of their faith using their own scriptures.
He came to our church on a Sunday, brought by a Lutheran friend who had never set foot in an evangelical church before. It was the first time in his entire life that he had been inside a church of any kind. Both of them said afterward that they had never experienced anything like it. For the young man, it was overwhelming.
The following Tuesday morning, sitting in the Western Café in Bozeman, he became a Christian.
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