Roger Decker
Salvation Experience
I am sure my walk with the Lord is not a lot different than many other Christians, but still unique to me. Raised in a Christian home, not my parent’s home, but my paternal grandmother’s home. Along with my parents, my grandmother gave me a sense of love and fair play and doing what is right. At eleven years old my father passed away, and so did my interest in the Lord. Fast forward 43 years my wife Linda and I visited our daughter and son in law’s church in Grape Vine, Texas. On the way home, Linda thought it might be a good idea for us to attend Neighborhood Church. The first sermon was good (Dr. Larry Vold), but what brought me back the next week was a young lady on stage singing solo. Her name was Tiffany Thompson. It was like God was singing just to me. Fast forward another 24 years, I greet, usher, and facilitate a discipleship group, loving every minute, seeing Christian friends and meeting new believers as they search for their calling. Not exactly sure when the Lord came into my heart, but to quote a now-deceased Christian brother, Bill Libbey, ”when it happened, I know I was there.”
Key Scripture
Some of my favorite verses are:
Gal. 5: 22-23, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
1 Corr. 13:13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. If you can keep these in your heart, I believe it is what the Lord wants for us. Coming up on sixty years of marriage, I have come to realize that love is our most precious gift from God.
My favorite verse is Psalm 23:1-6. Even when I was not walking with the Lord I always felt a guiding force in my life helping me to do the right thing, to feel safe in sometimes scary or uncertain circumstances, always being cared for by special others, knowing the Lord is in my heart and I am in His. And eventually dwelling in the house of the Lord.
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