[Propertalk] Experiencing God’s grace - Illustration

[Joe Parrish]

Weekly Illustration
       
                            
                 
An idea to serve as an example or spark an alternative sermon.
              
                    
                 
                    
                       
                          
                             
 
			                    
Experiencing God’s grace
                             
When we experience God’s grace, it often comes in the midst of things that seem to wear us down.
                             
Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, experienced grace in this way. He had tried for years to quit drinking. An agnostic, Wilson consulted a friend who counseled him to seek God’s help. Having been treated with hallucinogenic drugs in a hospital, Wilson went to his hotel room after a conversation with the friend. Crying out in desperation, he prayed an unusual prayer, “If there is a God, let him show himself! I am ready to do anything. Anything!” According to his account, his room was bathed in a white light, conveying the presence of God. In his words, “It seemed to me, in the mind’s eye, that I was on a mountain and that a wind not of air, but of spirit was blowing. And then it burst upon me that I was a free man.” That experience enabled him to find a way to stop drinking.
                             
(Source: David Brooks, “Bill Wilson’s Gospel,” New York Times Online, June 28, 2010.)



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