ABOUT THE BOOK
My name is Eldon Adams. I have been a professed Christian, all of my life. By professed, I mean I thought and believed I was a Christian, but my thoughts and beliefs were largely based on ignorance.
My purpose for this writing at the outset was only to share my testimony about the ups and downs and ups of my Christian life, so that others might find strength from reading about the struggles my wife and I endured and how God guided us to a whole new perspective and way of life. Our pastor, Rick Warren of Saddle Back Church in Southern California, encouraged his congregations to consider writing and sharing our come-to-faith-testimonies as a good exercise in ministry, to share with our church. He encouraged us to adopt a hundred-day plan in his sermon on January 16, 2022. If you finish reading this, and I hope you will, you may believe that I got a little bit carried away with my assignment. It became a small book, as I felt a calling to also reveal a more urgent matter that I believe the Holy Spirit also assigned me to write about.
I believe my testimony is an example of the way that God patiently recovers lost souls and puts them back on the path to salvation. God has had a patient, guiding hand in transforming my thinking after I pushed Him and my faith to the back burner years ago. I now believe He had a bigger purpose in mind for me. I used to hear the pastors talk about godly calling, and I always wondered what God had in mind for me. At seventy-seven years of age, I was beginning to think maybe He overlooked me or I didn’t have a calling. And then came this call from Pastor Rick to write my testimony, and I thought, I can do that.
