We welcome you now to a true church perspective with Pastor G. Craig Lewis.

So when it was time for ministry and God calling me to ministry, you know, I just, I never saw ministry as something to boost who I was.

Actually, it was something I didn't, I just really didn't want to do it, to be honest with you.

And it wasn't something I looked forward to.

I was little, like I'd be in church now.

I might have been around 10, 11 in that age group, and preachers would come, visiting preachers, revivals, whatever.

And I mean, I could be in the corner acting up somewhere hiding somewhere whatever

and the Holy Spirit would have them call me out every time and they would just call me I mean

they would always say you come here God has something that he's going to do in your life I mean

for real just all the time and okay now I'm going to do in your life. I mean, for real, just all the time.

And, okay, now I'm going to get emotional about this one, but when I had, you know,

there was a time when I was so down and depressed and I was just kind of out of there,

I had an experience where I was, I remember I was driving and, uh, and I wanted to end my life at this,

this particular point. I was just kind of, I was driving my sister's car actually and I let the

steering wheel go. And, um, I ended up in this, this field, just, I don't know how I ended up

in there, whatever, but when I woke up you know I felt

the Lord began to show me all of the people that has spoken those things saying you know you can't

you can't leave here it's bad now but it's bad for a reason he was preparing me for something

and then I remember that Sunday I got to church.

And I was on the Oregon.

I was playing for the church or whatever.

And the pastor at the time, he stopped, you know, at the end of the service they would do back in the old church prayer request and just ask people to yell out, you know, their prayer request.

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