{"id":14113,"date":"2024-09-13T17:32:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T21:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/?p=14113"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:29:12","slug":"impacting-lives-jeremys-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightbearers.org\/blog\/impacting-lives-jeremys-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Impacting Lives: Jeremy\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDoes God <\/span>really<\/span><\/i> burn people forever if they don\u2019t get baptized?!\u201d Jeremy\u2019s teenage daughter Darby asked as she walked into the room. She showed him the TikTok video she\u2019d stumbled upon.<\/span><\/p>\n

The conversation set off a series of events that led Jeremy and his family, who\u2019d left the church years before, to have an encounter with the gospel. In a real way, this encounter happened because of the generous financial support of people like you. Here\u2019s what I mean.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremy and his first wife Lynn weren\u2019t raised with religion. They came into the church\u00a0 in their early twenties through an evangelistic series. Jeremy loved Bible prophecy and the doctrines, but not too long after his baptism, he quit attending church. He didn\u2019t have a bad experience with people. But between Lynn passing away, his remarriage and the birth of his twins, and the stress of making ends meet, church felt exhausting and he didn\u2019t miss it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, though, as Darby asked big questions, he realized that <\/span>he<\/span><\/i> knew the answers but <\/span>she<\/span><\/i> didn\u2019t. \u201cWell, let\u2019s go to church and find out,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

After that conversation, Jeremy searched online for a pastor he used to listen to, David Asscherick. As he listened, YouTube queued up another series: the Light Bearers Live Sessions, a monthly study with David and two other pastors, Ty Gibson and Angelo Grasso.
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Angelo shared how, though he\u2019d been raised in church, he\u2019d felt emotionally disconnected from the gospel.
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In the next study, Jeremy listened as Angelo shared how, though he\u2019d been raised in church, he\u2019d felt emotionally disconnected from the gospel. He was ready to leave the church when he heard a sermon about the woman who anointed Jesus’ feet with perfume because of her near-impulsive love for him. Angelo thought, \u201cGod, I want to love You like <\/span>that<\/span><\/i>.\u201d He described how he realized that Jesus is a <\/span>person<\/span><\/i> who had died for him and this was not just a religion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremy loved Bible prophecy and the three angels’ messages when he became a believer\u2014<\/span>the ideas<\/span><\/i>\u2014but, as he listened to Angelo, he couldn\u2019t recall ever having an emotional connection to Jesus as <\/span>a person<\/span><\/i> in his years attending church. He wanted that. So after the study, Jeremy asked God to connect the gospel to his heart.
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He realized that in all his years of coming in and out of the church, he\u2019d never grasped the centrality of the gospel or the connection between every doctrine and Jesus.
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The next day, while surfing YouTube, he found a sermon series Ty preached. As he listened, Jeremy felt like he was hearing the gospel in a whole new way. In his words, \u201cGod ripped out my heart, but then He recreated a new one in me.\u201d He realized that in all his years of coming in and out of the church, he\u2019d never grasped the centrality of the gospel or the connection between every doctrine and Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019d like to ask you to pray for Jeremy and his family as they have begun to keep the Sabbath and attend church again. He feels like this time it\u2019s different. He finds himself sharing with people almost involuntarily what he\u2019s learned, telling his coworkers and friends, \u201cYou need to listen to this sermon! It tells you how to think about God.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremy was able to discover the gospel through the Live Sessions because they\u2019ve already been paid for by people like you. If you\u2019d like to help give more people like Jeremy the opportunity to encounter Jesus through our content, I\u2019d like to invite you to partner with us financially.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to impact more lives with my gift<\/span> <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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