The following program
discusses sensitive issues
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related to addictive behavior.
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Parents are
cautioned that some material
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may be too candid
for younger children.
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Welcome back.
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You know I did ask
you to stay because I--
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really like you to
close out in prayer.
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But is there
anything else you want
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to cover before
we end this program?
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Well, there would be a lot
of things that we could say
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but probably the most
significant for me or to me was
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the moment when God told me
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that I needed to humble myself
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and confess this
before the whole church.
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Wow. Not just before her.
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It was our church
where we were members.
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Okay, I had not been
the pastor of that church
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we were just members there.
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But the Lord made us so clear
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that I wanted to have a
special Sabbath for that.
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And I not only ask forgiveness
from my wife, my children,
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I ask forgiveness
from the whole church
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and after that
I was re-baptized.
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Oh.
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And when he is saying that
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he has
forgiveness of our children
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and me it was done in
the church to all of us.
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So honoring and really
it was that you know I know
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that publicly you have dealt
with this through out the years
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and so publicly
I'm gonna come back
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and say, I am so sorry.
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Yes, yes.
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And that was something
that for me was very significant
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because we're in public
ministry and we cannot cover up
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under the rug
things that people may know
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or may get to know or if they
don't know it only honors God.
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He calls us to humble ourselves
and to confess to one another
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because being in public ministry
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we didn't only hurt each
other we hurt the whole world.
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Absolutely.
Absolutely. With the Son of God.
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And it was one of
the most precious things
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very special friends that
work at Andrews University
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at that time, Dr. John
and Dr. Millay Embark came
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and had that time with
us and John baptized Rene
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and then we had
a little ceremony
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that we invited the
members of our church
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and family and also
friends from the community
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because we
ministering the community.
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We did many seminars for years
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and many of them
you what was going on.
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So we invited them to come
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to what was we
call new beginnings.
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And we had a
little ceremony together.
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And we had a little ceremony.
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That little ceremony all.
It was a marriage ceremony.
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No way, I knew
you are gonna say that
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and as soon as
you went that way.
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I thought that is
just a perfect to be have
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to look at each other again
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and say we've
lost a lot of years
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but today I am your husband.
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Today, I am your wife. Yes, yes.
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And the marriage in
truth had been destroyed. Yeah.
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So it was the new
beginning not only relationally
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but a new
beginning in this sense.
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When we got married as
innocent and ignorant kids
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we promised each other to be
faithful and to love each other
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until death to a
support without realizing
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that we didn't have it within
us to love as Jesus loves.
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And is only by the grace
of God that we were giving
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the opportunity to
begin loving in this period.
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Could you close
this out in prayer? Yes.
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Because I know probably
you opened up some wounds
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and some celebrations with folks
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but close this
out in prayer. Okay.
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And thank you so much
for blessing us. Amen.
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Oh, dear Father,
God of the universe.
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You are life and
the giver of life.
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You are light and
the giver of light.
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We're nothing apart from You.
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