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Next on In Touch, The Key to the Christian Life.

Would it shock you if I told you, I just can't live this Christian life."

Thank you, sir.

Would I shock you if I told you?

Neither can you.

Do I get another amen?

Well, one of the happiest days of my life is when I discovered that I couldn't.

He knew I couldn't, and it was okay, he was going to show me what the truth was.

Because you see, I like a lot of other people had struggled and struggled and struggled

and struggled.

When I was saved at the age of 12, the pastor said, children, you grow up and be a good boy.

And one of these days you go to heaven or something like that, or God'll bless you.

And so I did what he said.

I tried to grow up and be a good boy. And sometimes I was, and sometimes

I wasn't all that good. And somewhere along the way, I figured I had a problem. And I think a lot

of people have felt that way. They've listened to somebody who preached the gospel. They've

trusted Christ as their Savior, and they think I'm going to somebody preach the gospel, they've trusted

Christ as their Savior, and they think I'm going to have a new life and it's going to

be fantastic and didn't take them very long to think, I sort of feel like what I used to

feel. And things aren't going as way the way I thought they ought to. And so sometimes

there's confusion. I've been a pastor for quite some

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