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The Unfolding

Unfolding Short Stories: "..Whatever you have to do to get my attention" (Saying "Yes" to Jesus)

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9867 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Lindsey Capperune leads the episode with stories of people saying "Yes" to Jesus. There are names you'll recognize, like Michael W. Smith and Matthew West. There are others you might not recognize, like Erin and Ryan. In God's kingdom, we are all equal, and He invites each of us to say "Yes" to a life with Him. Lindsey also shares when she said "Yes" to Jesus at an early age. 

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0:00.0

God's story, your life.

0:05.0

Unfolding short stories.

0:08.0

Hi, my name is Lindsay, and I've gathered some testimonies from people who have said yes to Jesus.

0:17.0

It's kind of cool how they're all different, all different times and places and ages that

0:22.2

people have been moved by God to say yes.

0:26.3

In these testimonies, I love what we can see about God.

0:29.2

He is always going after his sons and daughters.

0:32.5

He's always pursuing us with his love and his kindness.

0:36.6

He's always trying to get our attention. And he tries

0:39.8

to get our attention with creation and with his love and with his kindness and by his scriptures

0:44.7

and other people speaking to us. He's just using whatever he can to go after us in love and to bring

0:51.3

us to himself. I wanted to tell you about the story when I said yes to Jesus.

0:56.9

I was five years old and I was on my way to kindergarten on a big, long yellow school bus.

1:03.6

I was sitting in the front seat right behind the bus driver.

1:06.1

It was just me and the bus driver.

1:07.9

And I don't know what came over me in that moment specifically, but it came

1:11.7

over me that that was the time that I needed to give my life to Jesus. I had grown up in church.

1:16.2

I had knew about Jesus. I loved him. I knew him. I wanted to ask him into my heart. I wanted to be

1:22.5

with him in heaven forever. And so in the front seat of a school bus, five years old on my way to kindergarten,

1:29.3

I asked Jesus into my heart. It was just a little simple prayer. God, please save me,

1:34.3

please forgive me in my sins. Please come into my heart. And he did. After that, I spent

1:40.9

lots of time in church. We were a family that went to church on Sunday morning and Sunday night and Wednesday night and vacation Bible school. I mean, if church was open, we were there. But it wasn't until college that I feel like I really got serious about my faith. I always kind of thought that my faith was like a Sunday thing and that church was a Sunday

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