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Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY018057A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:06 mending broken people, 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 removing pain... 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:29 heal a heart that hurts, 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 mending broken people... 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 mending broken people. 00:56 Music... 01:11 Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn 01:13 and I am very blessed to be the wife 01:17 of this wonderful man next to me, JD Quinn... 01:20 and blessed to have you on the program with us today. 01:23 Well, this is special because I'm looking forward to this, 01:25 special... special person we're talking with. 01:28 Yes, we just want to thank you for joining us 01:31 on 3ABN Today Program. 01:32 This is the "Mending Broken People" network 01:35 and I guarantee you... we are going to hear a story today 01:39 that you will see the power and the glory of God to change lives 01:44 in fact, let me read the Scripture 01:47 that I thought was most appropriate for today 01:50 and that is 2nd Corinthians 5:17 01:53 that says, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, 01:57 he is a new creation; 01:59 old things have passed away; 02:02 behold, all things have become new. " 02:05 And we can certainly say that for our dear friend and brother 02:10 who is joining us today, 02:12 he's part of our 3ABN staff 02:13 and that is Bob Eads, 02:15 Bob, we're so glad you're with us today. 02:17 Good morning, Thank you for the opportunity. 02:20 You know, you said that you have been excited 02:22 and desiring to do this for years 02:25 to tell your testimony on air 02:27 and today you get that chance 02:30 to talk about what God did in your life. 02:33 Praise God... praise God. 02:35 And you said what... 02:36 it's not your personal testimony but... 02:38 This is a miracle. 02:41 The miracle-working power of God. 02:44 so, you're going to be testifying about God, right. 02:47 Amen, it's all about Him. 02:49 And what I like about Bob is that... 02:51 Bob is one of these guys that's... 02:53 that's a very passionate... 02:55 he has a passionate relationship with the Lord 02:57 and Bob is the type of person 03:00 that's just talking "Jesus" to everyone. 03:03 Shelley: Yes he does... 03:04 Now, there are a lot of people that in certain situations 03:07 they'll bring Christ up... 03:09 then there's... there's Bob... 03:11 and it's "Jesus, Jesus... Jesus" he's a true inspiration. 03:16 Shelley: Amen. JD Quinn: True inspiration. 03:18 He is my life... I would have no life without Him 03:21 He is the life-giver and He energizes me 03:25 and gives me the desire... the willingness and the ability 03:29 to talk about Him every opportunity that I get, 03:31 it doesn't matter whether people accept it or not... 03:33 I'm taking about Him. 03:35 As we go through this testimony... 03:37 as we go through this miracle... 03:39 let's just say that we have scale of one to ten, 03:42 we all could visualize that 03:44 and man... you started on a one... 03:47 and now you're over here and pinging at 9 and 1/2 and ten. 03:52 This is truly a miracle and I would imagine 03:55 that there are a lot of people that can identify... 03:58 that they've had a similar walk and as we like to say, 04:01 "Just got sick and tired of being sick and tired... 04:05 there's got to be more to life than this. " 04:06 Absolutely, well, we just want to encourage you to stay tuned 04:11 because... and if you know anyone who has... 04:14 is maybe suffering addiction to tobacco or alcohol or drugs 04:21 or pornography... we're going to cover it all today 04:24 and to know that there is truly hope 04:29 and we just want to take this opportunity 04:32 before we get started 04:34 to thank all of you 04:35 for your prayers and your love and your financial support 04:39 because you'll see today 04:41 this truly is the Mending Broken People Network 04:44 and it's possible because 04:47 of the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 04:50 and because of you. 04:51 Before we begin, we all love to hear music 04:56 and we got a special treat today 04:58 because Danny Shelton will be singing, 05:01 "Here I am, Dear Lord. " 05:03 Amen. 05:08 Music... 05:14 Here I am 05:18 dear Lord... 05:22 Take me now... 05:26 Take me now just as I am 05:32 Take the breath you gave me 05:38 Take this body of clay 05:43 and mold me 05:50 all over again. 05:56 And I'll be what you want me to be 06:05 throughout eternity 06:13 I'll breathe each breath of my life for you 06:20 each breath for you... 06:23 breath for you 06:27 Here I am... dear Lord 06:34 Take me now... 06:38 Take me now... just as I am 06:45 Take the breath you gave me 06:51 Take this body of clay 06:56 and mold me 07:02 all over again. 07:08 And I'll spread your love to everyone... 07:17 and tell of Calvary 07:27 I'll tell the world what you mean to me 07:34 what you mean to me... 07:37 yes, mean to me... 07:43 Here I am dear Lord... 07:48 Take me now... 07:53 Take me now just as I am... 07:59 Take the breath you gave me 08:05 Take this body of clay 08:10 and mold me 08:19 all over again. 08:28 Music... 08:32 I always love to hear Danny sing, 08:37 Danny is the President and Founder of 3ABN 08:41 and he truly is a minister of music... 08:46 JD Quinn: Amen. 08:47 I mean, it's... I feel like... 08:49 when I listen to him sing, it's just like hearing a sermon 08:52 so we enjoy that so much. 08:54 Yeah, I was just saying, he just makes it look so simple. 08:57 It is simple for him. 08:59 It is truly a gift. 09:01 Yes, it is... 09:02 Yes, absolutely. 09:03 Well, if you're joining us just a couple of moments late, 09:06 we have a special guest with us today 09:08 and that is Bob Eads 09:10 who is a new creation in Christ Jesus 09:13 and the Lord has brought him through so much. 09:17 Bob, let's just kind of kick this off by going back 09:20 to the beginning, 09:22 tell us a little of your childhood, 09:23 did you grow up in a Christian home? 09:25 Actually, I did not, my mother would take... 09:28 my dad had nothing to do with it at all... 09:30 my mother would take my sister and I to the Presbyterian church 09:34 in the little community in southern California 09:35 where I was born and raised 09:37 and drop us off 09:39 and then pick us up at the end of Sunday School 09:40 and that was pretty much the only religious background 09:42 that I had. 09:44 When we were old enough to make our own decision, 09:46 then I dropped out it completely... 09:47 I had no interest whatsoever 09:49 so, that was pretty much the extent 09:52 of my religious background... 09:53 pretty much zero when you get right down to it. 09:57 Okay, so, as a child... were you a thriving child 10:01 or were you... tell us a little bit about your childhood. 10:04 Well, actually, when I was seven years old, 10:06 I weighed 37 pounds. 10:07 We were living in the north-central Nebraska... 10:10 small town of Valentine at the time 10:12 both of my parents were heavy smokers... I had Asthma... 10:14 the local doctors were not able to diagnose. 10:17 My mom finally got me to a Specialist 10:19 in southern California at one time 10:21 and he just flat told them, 10:23 "You either move this kid to a warm drive climate 10:25 or bury him, take your choice... " 10:27 that next summer, we moved to southern California 10:29 and that's where I was raised until I was about 18 years old. 10:33 Okay, so, tell us about that childhood. 10:37 Well, I was the runt... picked on a lot... bullied a lot 10:41 by the time I was seven years old, 10:44 now this... we're going back to... 10:46 into the Valentine, Nebraska again, 10:48 this was prior to us moving out, 10:50 I was about seven when we moved out, 10:52 older kids took my sister and I down the alley... 10:54 they actually had alleys back in those days 10:56 and they still do in the little community 10:58 and introduced us to cigarettes. 11:00 My sister took one puff off of the cigarette... got sick... 11:04 never smoked another day of her life, 11:05 I was hooked and I smoked for 22 or 23 years after that. 11:09 At first I would... because my parents both smoked 11:13 there were cigarette butts in the ash trays 11:15 they'd put them out on the floor... on the ground 11:17 and different things like that 11:19 so I was going around collecting them... 11:20 very small community... 11:21 I would write notes to the store keepers 11:24 and say that my mom or my dad 11:26 had sent me for a pack of cigarettes, 11:27 and something that troubled me for many years... 11:31 they both kept a carton of cigarettes 11:33 in one of the kitchen drawers, 11:35 my mom was: Raleigh... my dad was: Winston... 11:36 and every now and then, a pack of those would disappear. 11:39 they never called me on that 11:41 I think because... they couldn't because they... 11:44 they themselves smoked. 11:45 Years later, I talked to them... yes... 11:48 But... but... I just want to ask 11:49 you have Asthma... and you've started smoking... 11:56 did that not make it worse? 11:58 Indeed it did... many times throughout the year 12:01 I would end up in... in bed sick... 12:04 taking many antibiotics, losing a lot of time at work 12:09 just feeling miserable in general, 12:10 but still the addiction was stronger than all of that, 12:13 the desire to have those 12:16 and to continue in that lifestyle 12:17 was stronger than what was going on physically. 12:21 Nine years old, I was introduced to pornography, 12:25 I found a girlie magazine somewhere 12:26 in the little community we lived in 12:29 and that carried on until 1997... 12:32 that was the longest and strongest addiction that I had 12:35 throughout all these years 12:37 and that's the one that I know God is able... 12:42 He can deliver us from that. 12:44 I was fortunate enough... 12:47 blessed enough to have the One-Step Program... 12:49 God just did away with it. 12:51 Many people... there's nothing wrong with the 12-Step Program, 12:55 they introduce you to God and help you along the way, 12:58 some people need that additional help 13:01 of someone that suffers from the same thing they do, 13:03 but God just delivered me... it was just done. 13:05 I say that this is something 13:06 that a lot of people don't recognize 13:08 is that addiction... addiction... 13:10 pornography is one of the strongest addictions there is, 13:15 it messes with your brain chemistry 13:17 as much as cocaine or heroin... more than any of those. 13:21 Yes, if I had to... 13:22 and that is the one that I still struggle with the most... 13:25 we'll get to the alcohol and the... 13:26 and the other street drugs and all that kind of stuff... 13:28 that is the one that was the hardest... 13:31 the last to give up 13:32 and that would be the one... 13:34 if I ever gave up on God 13:36 and went back to any of the other stuff, 13:37 that would be the one thing I would go back to. 13:39 The alcohol and the cigarettes and the... all the rest of that 13:43 were physically harmful, 13:45 I mean, you could feel the results of that 13:47 but with the pornography you don't... 13:48 it's all going on in up here 13:49 and, of course, that changes everything 13:52 throughout our entire system 13:54 but when you're in that addiction... 13:55 when you're in that predicament and that lifestyle, 13:57 you don't realize that 13:59 and because it is so prevalent 14:01 many of your peers... 14:02 many of the people that are with you... 14:04 I used to share the materials that I had 14:05 with a lot of married people 14:07 and they would take it home and pollute their families... 14:09 their wives and I don't know... 14:10 hopefully praise God, not their children 14:12 but at least their wives. 14:13 So, here you are, you've got a smoking addiction 14:17 and then you develop the pornography addiction... 14:21 Bob: Yes, at nine... 14:23 Shelley: When did the drinking and the drugs come in? 14:25 Back in the '50s and '60s, when I was a kid, 14:28 neighborhoods were still... 14:31 we didn't lock the doors to our homes... 14:32 this is in southern California, this is unheard of now, 14:34 but the parents would get together on weekends 14:37 at somebody's house and they would play their card games 14:40 and they would bring their alcohol... beer or wine, whiskey 14:42 whatever it might be... and their cigarettes 14:44 and they would sit around and play cards, 14:45 well, all of the kids from these families 14:47 would gather at the same house and we would pester our parents, 14:50 "Oh mommy... I want to... I want to taste that... 14:52 I want a sip... I want a sip" 14:53 and finally, to shut us up and get us out of their hair 14:56 so that they could play their games, 14:57 they would give us a sip 14:58 and I think inadvertently, that's where I developed that... 15:01 that taste for alcohol 15:02 so by the time I got out of high school at 17 years old, 15:05 I was an alcoholic. 15:06 I was consuming daily, 15:08 we had a friend in school... his dad ran a liquor store, 15:10 owned and operated a liquor store, 15:12 evening times our friend would be... 15:14 he wasn't supposed to sell alcohol 15:16 but out the back door it would go 15:17 so we had a steady supply... 15:19 several others did... they hung together in a group. 15:22 So, that was the alcohol and then... six months... 15:24 not six months... 15:26 two weeks out of... out of high school... 15:29 I graduated in June of 1964, 15:33 I joined the Navy 15:34 and I was introduced within six months... 15:38 I was introduced to the marijuana 15:39 which ultimately led to the cocaine... hashish... 15:42 all of the pills... the different pills... 15:44 the uppers and the downers and the rest of that 15:47 and I became very, very deep into that lifestyle 15:51 and that carried on until 1997 15:54 and this is where 3ABN and Amazing Facts come in. 15:58 Yes. 15:59 Go ahead. 16:01 Well, 3ABN aired a program that year, 16:03 it was called Satellite Seminar 16:04 the church did... 16:06 for those of you who are Seventh-day Adventists out there 16:07 the church did not have a Net Program that year 16:10 and Danny and Pastor Doug teamed up 16:14 and they did a live satellite broadcast... a Prophecy Seminar 16:17 I tuned into that and I watched... 16:20 two weeks into that, 16:21 I was a born-again Seventh-day Adventist Christian, 16:23 without any prior religious background... 16:25 I did not own a Bible, 16:27 I didn't need one because I didn't believe in God, 16:28 I went and borrowed my mom's Bible 16:30 King James Version oh! what an experience that was! 16:33 It was like... next day I was like, 16:35 "Mom, how do you use this thing, which chapter and verse... 16:38 I don't know, I'm listening to this stuff on 3ABN 16:39 and I don't know how to find it 16:41 and so she worked me through on how to use the Bible. 16:44 Now... 16:46 Are we still in the Navy during this time 16:49 or we passed Navy? 16:50 We're passed Navy... 16:51 Okay, so, let's go back to Navy for a minute... 16:54 so you were... you are a Vietnam Vet... 16:56 Bob: I am. 16:58 And you are on a ship that shot how many rounds? 17:00 We fired 5,000 rounds in one week, 17:03 we set a record... we were in the Stars and Stripes 17:05 which was a publication of the Navy... the U.S. Navy... 17:08 5- inch-54... that means that the round was five inches around 17:13 and 54 inches high... 17:15 and we shot 5,000 of those... 17:17 a small plane would give us spotting directions 17:20 and we would shoot into the jungle. 17:21 Okay, so, here you are... 17:23 it is in the Navy that you get introduced to marijuana 17:27 is that where you got on to hashish and the other pills... 17:30 the uppers and the downers... 17:31 Bob: Yes. 17:33 You know, that is so amazing to me 17:34 because we think if... if you're sending off a son 17:38 who's joined some armed services, 17:41 you feel like they're going to be... 17:43 have such good discipline 17:46 but we hear this story so often don't we 17:48 that people go into the service and end up on drugs 17:53 so, you were in the service for how many years? 17:56 I spent three years and a month on active duty 17:59 there's a four-year commitment, 18:02 the rest of it was on Inactive Reserves. 18:05 I was very fortunate when I went it, 18:07 if you joined before you were 18 you got out before you were 21 18:10 so you could be in for as little as three years and a month 18:13 which is what I got or three years and eleven months 18:15 and then you were off active duty. 18:16 All right, were you single at this point? 18:19 You're single... so you get out of the Navy 18:22 and before you jump to 3ABN, tell us the... 18:24 kind of fill in the blank there, 18:26 you married? 18:28 Yes, my first marriage was Alice 1... 18:32 I am currently with Alice 2. 18:35 Alice 1 was me... 18:36 it was for lust and it didn't last five years, 18:38 a son came from that marriage, 18:41 he'll be 48 this August... August of this year 18:44 and then, it gets a little... it gets a little hazy from there 18:50 right out of the Navy, 18:51 I had moved to South Carolina 18:53 to go and work for my sister and brother-in-law, 18:55 my brother-in-law was still in the Navy at that time, 18:57 he was on nuclear submarines 18:59 they had started up a business and I went down, 19:01 that's where I met my first wife, 19:02 the first marriage came from... in South Carolina 19:04 that's where my son is and still is... 19:07 lost him for 24 years... 19:10 I was so heavily involved in the drug culture... 19:13 I moved away after the divorce was final 19:15 and went back to southern California 19:18 and spent some time with my sister 19:20 and my niece and my nephew. 19:21 Now, your wife actually remarried and you gave... 19:25 her new husband adopted your son, is that correct? 19:29 Yes, they wanted to adopt right away 19:31 and I refused to let them do that 19:33 but after I moved to southern California 19:35 and got much deeper into the drug culture, 19:38 I got behind in child support and they contacted me and said, 19:41 "Hey, if you don't want to come back to South Carolina 19:43 and go to jail, let us adopt. " 19:44 So, I allowed to let them adopt. 19:46 When I did that, I gave up the privileges 19:49 of being able to contact him... 19:50 have any... any connection with him 19:52 at least until he was 18. 19:53 I was still cognizant enough to realize that because of the... 19:58 the lifestyle I led, 20:00 I really didn't want him to know anything about me. 20:01 I didn't... I wouldn't... not have been proud as a father, 20:04 I was not a good father for the five years he was in my life, 20:06 so, I kind of went at it from that way. 20:10 When God brought Alice 2 into my life, 20:13 she was working for the Carolina Conf... 20:16 Shelley: Wait... wait... wait... you jump ahead there... 20:18 okay, so, here you are now, this... at this point 20:22 we've got a total mess, right? 20:24 Bob: Oh, absolutely. 20:26 Shelley: You're a wreck... 20:29 how did you tune in to 3ABN? 20:33 One night, I was lying on my couch 20:36 in the little community of Valentine, Nebraska, 20:38 north-central Nebraska, 20:39 nine miles from South Dakota border, 20:41 bored to death... I had a large satellite dish at that time 20:44 so they had 24 satellites across the horizon 20:47 with 24 channels on each one, 20:49 I did the math on that, 20:50 that's over 600 chann... 500 channels... 20:52 and I just started surfing... I had an addiction to every... 20:56 if the movies didn't have a lot of explosions 20:58 and naked or semi-naked women in that, 21:00 I wouldn't even be interested in it, 21:01 I had two hard core triple X pornography channels 21:05 that I was subscribing to 21:06 and recording almost 24 hours a day, 21:08 when I came into the church, I had 60 six-hour VHS tapes 21:12 of absolutely nothing but hard-core pornography. 21:14 I didn't want to watch anything. 21:15 That's a... 21:17 Shelley: That's a God thing... if you... 21:19 if you've got that pornography at that level 21:20 and you didn't want to watch it... 21:22 you're... you're not finding a single channel 21:24 that you want to watch. 21:25 Bob: Totally God... 21:27 so, I started surfing the... the... the satellites... 21:30 and I'd spend about three to five seconds on each channel 21:33 and when I finished one satellite, 21:34 I'd move on to the next 21:36 somewhere down the line, 21:37 I ran across Doug Batchelor preaching, 21:39 I don't recall the sermon, 21:41 oh, if I had just been smart enough to write all this down, 21:43 but who knew... 21:45 and I was hooked and I stayed on that channel 21:47 and I watched it all the way through. 21:49 They had live questions... people calling in... 21:51 and he was giving answers and stuff... 21:53 Shelley: What hooked you? What got you... I mean... 21:55 Bob: I think it... I remember it was very colorful, 21:58 I suspect it may have had something to do with the beast 22:01 or something in the book of Revelation, 22:03 it was just... because it was so colorful... 22:05 the language that he was using, the things he was describing 22:08 and so, I stayed and I watched the whole thing, 22:11 well, at the end of that, I went back to my normal satellite 22:13 and regular channels that I watch, 22:15 the next day, I wanted more of course, 22:17 I... I'm... this is great... I want more of this... 22:20 couldn't find it... 22:21 couldn't find it 22:23 I didn't remember the channel, 22:24 I didn't remember the satellite it was on, 22:26 so, I started surfing again, 22:27 and I surfed for two or three days... 22:30 I would... I mean, there was religious stuff, 22:32 there was every... lot of foreign language stuff, 22:34 all kinds of stuff that I was not interested... 22:37 I wanted Doug Batchelor, 22:38 not know him by name at that time... 22:40 that's what I was interested in 22:41 so I just went back into the world 22:42 and back to my regular programming, 22:44 two to three weeks later, in my Television Guide 22:47 which was about this big, 22:49 there was a half-page Ad by 3ABN 22:52 advertising this upcoming live satellite broadcast 22:57 Prophecy Seminar with Doug Batchelor, 22:59 his picture was there... 23:01 I said, "That's it... that's him... " 23:02 so, I knew... I knew where to get it. 23:04 So, this was probably in 1990 or something like that... 1995? 23:08 This would have been 1997, 23:11 it was the fall of 1997... it was when 3ABN aired that... 23:15 it was in the old Boss Auditorium, 23:16 Bose... is it Bose or Boss? 23:18 Shelley: Boss. 23:19 The Boss... yes... and the first time I came here 23:23 and went through the... 23:25 Shelley: Tour... 23:27 Bob: tour... yes sometimes words just escape me, 23:29 too many years of alcohol and other drugs, so... 23:31 but it's... please forgive me... 23:33 Gloria took us back and I was shocked 23:36 because it was no longer a Studio, 23:38 it was just storage at the time 23:40 and I said, "This is where this happened?" 23:41 And they said, "Yes. " 23:42 So, that was quite an experience to... to see that. 23:44 When I came to 3ABN... when God... 23:48 Shelley: Wait, wait, wait... wait... wait... 23:49 you're going too... 23:51 I want to get back to this new creation in Christ 23:53 so, you watch this Program... this Series for two weeks... 24:00 Bob: Yes. 24:02 Shelley: And you surrendered control of your life to God 24:05 and asked Christ to be your Savior and to guide you... 24:09 Bob: Absolutely. 24:10 So, you just did that in your own bedroom? 24:14 Yes, in my living room, 24:15 in this... I was purchasing a 14-by-70-foot Mobile Home, 24:19 it was about 24 years old at the time 24:21 it was in excellent shape, 24:23 the people I had purchased it from 24:24 had already raised their children, 24:26 the lady had made custom drapes, it was a nice place, 24:28 and that's where... now I watched the whole Series, 24:31 it was this... two weeks into it is when I surrendered 24:34 and I said, "You know, God, I want you to be my Savior, 24:36 what do I need to do?" 24:38 And He... and continuing to watch Pastor Doug 24:41 as he explained the steps through that Prophecy Seminar 24:44 and that's what I love about these prophecy seminars, 24:47 they start out building a foundation... 24:48 "Who is Jesus?" 24:50 "What can He do in your life?" 24:51 Showing and displaying the power that He has 24:55 and His willingness 24:57 no matter where we're in in our lives 24:58 because I'm a mess... I'm just... I'm alone... 25:02 and yet, He loved me enough and still loves me 25:05 to the point that He was willing to lead me 25:08 and guide me through this process. 25:10 Now, this is really interesting right now 25:12 so I want to talk some emotions for a second 25:15 because there are a lot of people 25:17 that... who are finding themselves 25:19 that there is no meaning... 25:21 there is no purpose in their life... 25:23 so, you're sitting here you're watching this, 25:25 obviously the Holy Spirit's working in your life. 25:28 Bob: Very much. 25:29 What does that mean? Are you feeling something inside 25:32 are you feeling drawn... 25:34 something wanted you to get down on your knees and say, 25:37 "Lord, take my hand... " 25:39 I mean, what happened? 25:41 I mean, how does that work? 25:43 I'd like to hear that from a human being... 25:44 to the best of your ability and if you can't... 25:47 it is beyond words... okay. 25:50 Bob: I will... I will try to describe it. 25:53 There were feelings... there were physical manifestations 25:57 pause 26:00 Shelley: Like your heart's fluttering... 26:02 Bob: Yes, I... really I guess I felt flushed... 26:06 I felt lifted up... 26:08 not like I'm floating off the floor or anything like that... 26:11 but I just felt different... 26:13 I knew that I was different at that time... 26:15 I knew that something was going on in my life 26:17 that I could not explain 26:18 but it was something that I wanted... 26:20 it was something that I desired... 26:22 and I just... "Lord, don't stop now... 26:24 keep going... keep going. " 26:25 Something was different so now you begin to think, 26:29 "Maybe God is for real. " 26:31 Bob: Yes... well there wasn't any "maybe" about it... 26:33 after two weeks... I'd like to explain it like this 26:36 it was almost like... like God just took a zipper 26:38 unzipped my brain... 26:39 flipped it open in my head 26:41 and just started pouring in the truth. 26:43 JD Quinn: Wow... wow. 26:44 Bob: The Bible... and the Bible only... 26:46 JD Quinn: So, what does surrender mean? 26:49 Because at that time you're unzipping... 26:53 and you're pouring in... 26:54 you know, Jesus is coming into your life 26:55 into your mind... 26:57 you're changing your priorities. 26:59 Bob: Yes. 27:00 JD Quinn: So this... now we're bringing up surrender, 27:03 I mean, that's the word that we use, 27:05 well it's personal surrender... 27:06 so, how does that work? 27:08 I suspect it's different for each individual, 27:12 the way it worked for me is I knew in an instant 27:17 that I had to change... that I had to be different... 27:19 now, we have to go back again... 27:22 God worked in my life in many ways 27:24 prior to my accepting Him, prior to my belief in Him... 27:29 to... no Bible... had no belief in God... 27:32 He brought circumstances about in my life 27:35 to give me opportunities to make choices. 27:38 JD Quinn: Hmmm... Shelley: Hmmm... hmmm... 27:40 Bob: So, He took... 27:41 I say, "He took.. " 27:43 I surrendered cigarettes, nicotine in 1977... 27:46 it was about 1953 when I started... 27:48 1977... 27:50 He withdrew His protection from me, 27:52 I was working in a very harsh environment, 27:54 very long hard hours... strong chemicals... 27:57 lot of noise... and I got walking Pneumonia 28:00 and I went to the VA hospital 28:02 the only insurance I had for most of my life 28:04 and they said, "Okay, you got two choices, 28:06 we'll put you in bed and dry you out 28:07 and get your lungs healed 28:09 or you can quit smoking, take your choice. " 28:11 I chose to quit smoking 28:13 because if I had gone into the hospital for 30 days, 28:15 that took away the rest of my drugs... 28:17 the marijuana... the cocaine... all the rest... that was gone... 28:19 and then back then it was caffeine and any other thing 28:22 that I could cram into my body 28:23 and I didn't want that to happen, 28:25 so I just laid them down and quit. 28:26 For many years, I took credit for that, 28:28 I said, "Yeah, I just quit smoking, 28:29 you know, just got tired of it. " 28:31 But it was... that was the motivation. 28:33 God brought that circumstance about in my life 28:36 where I could make that choice. 28:38 Shelley: You just didn't recognize it. 28:39 Bob: I didn't know at the time... 28:41 oh, at this time, I'm still like, "grrrhhh... " 28:42 everything that went wrong in my life... I'm cursing God... 28:44 don't believe in Him... 28:45 but everything goes wrong in your life, you curse, 28:47 who do you curse? 28:48 You don't curse anybody, you don't curse your parents 28:50 or who you're working for... it's always God. 28:52 "Well, why you're doing this?" 28:53 That's so interesting 28:55 because God really doesn't exist because you're Atheist, 28:57 but yet you get to blame God... 28:59 so I mean... so there's an oxymoron. 29:01 Bob: You got to blame somebody, you can't blame yourself, right, 29:03 if you blame yourself, you know you're in trouble. 29:04 All right, so He... you were already... 29:07 had dealt with the cigarettes 29:10 just because it's a life or death motivation 29:13 you had to give... 29:15 now, he was also... 29:17 weren't you beginning to give up some of the drugs in your life? 29:20 No, I continued with the marijuana for... 29:23 the next big step where He brought in my life... 29:26 now this was 1977... 11 years later, in 1988... 29:29 circumstances that He brought about in my life 29:32 where I was able to give up the alcohol and the other drugs. 29:35 the alcohol... I was working part time at a liquor store 29:38 in this small... back in Nebraska at this time now, 29:40 I lived up there 19 years as an adult 29:42 five years as a child 29:44 and I just went to my boss and just told him, 29:48 I said, "You know, I'm $14,000 in credit card debt, 29:51 there's no way I can live long enough to pay it off, 29:53 what am I going to do?" 29:54 And I'm purchasing this Mobile Home, 29:56 the first real logical thing that I ever did in my whole life 29:59 and I think this helped to move my dad to do what he did. 30:03 Pause. 30:06 I went to my boss and said... 30:07 and I had just bought two cases Dos Equis... 30:10 imported Mexican beer... that's what I was hooked on at the time 30:13 I was buying it at cost... kept it in his cooler, 30:15 I had a key... I locked up at nights 30:17 so I could go in the liquor store any time I wanted 30:18 and get my stuff... my fix... so to speak 30:21 and I just went to Bill and I said, "You know Bill... " 30:23 I said, "Man, I just... I really can't afford 30:25 to do this anymore, I need to stop this, 30:26 what am I going to do?" 30:28 He said, "Well, no problem" 30:29 he walked over to the cash register... pulled up the money, 30:31 paid me back for the liquor and said, 30:33 "I'll just sell it through the store. " 30:34 So, that was the end of the alcohol. 30:36 JD Quinn: Wow! 30:37 Still the pornography is there, 30:39 still the street drugs are there. 30:41 Well, shortly after the alcohol, I got to thinking, 30:43 my stash was getting low... 30:45 that's the little bit of marijuana I had left 30:46 and the last little bit of hashish... 30:48 I'd always to go Denver and visit an aunt 30:50 and that's where my connection was. 30:51 People in this little town of Valentine had no clue 30:54 that I was involved in any of this stuff, 30:56 I was hanging with the Sheriffs... several deputies... 31:00 we hunted together 31:01 we were on the Fire Department, 31:03 volunteer Fire Department together, 31:04 none of them had a clue that any of this was going on. 31:06 I was very... very good at hiding this 31:10 so... which was living a lie... 31:12 and I was one of the best liars you ever met, 31:14 I lied myself out of a lie-detector test one time... 31:17 we won't go into that 31:19 so, I gave up that and I said, "You know what? 31:22 When I finish this last little bit of marijuana 31:24 and the last little bit of Hashish, I'm just going to quit 31:26 I'm not going to Denver and get anymore. " 31:28 Here again, this is God working in my life 31:31 trying to clean me up and sober me up... 31:33 and get me in the right frame of mind enough 31:36 to where in 19... now this was '88... 31:38 it wasn't until '97 when I saw that Program. 31:41 So, even though I'd given up all these other addictions, 31:45 the pornography was still there, 31:47 and the inordinate lifestyle, I... I wasn't... 31:50 I had not accepted Christ... I wasn't believing in Him, 31:53 I still didn't have a Bible, 31:54 but I look back now 31:56 and for many years, I took credit for all that stuff 31:57 and I know now, that was the Holy Spirit working in my life. 32:00 if He had not done what He did 32:01 and cleaned me up as He did, 32:03 now, we know God is strong... he can do anything... 32:06 but there is a point in our life where we can reach 32:08 where we can't be reached... 32:10 and I was heading that way. 32:11 What's interesting... 32:13 because here again we hear this all the time. 32:15 "God chased me down. " 32:18 Now, in this situation, we begin to see here... 32:21 it's kind of interesting the seven, seven, eight, eight, 32:24 you know, and all this 32:25 but God actually did... 32:27 as you're looking back with a clean mind, 32:30 God was chasing you all the time. 32:33 Yes, He never gave up on me, 32:35 He will never give up on you... you out there in the audience, 32:38 let me tell you something, everything I've been through, 32:41 you may have been through the same or maybe even worse, 32:44 God will never give up on you, you have to give up on Him. 32:47 Amen... so... and... and it's interesting 32:51 because I've always heard 32:52 pornography is the most difficult addiction to give up 32:57 so that's the one that's really still got you... 32:59 Satan had you in his grips through that one 33:02 but now, you watched this Series for two weeks, 33:05 you said... you became a born-again Christian 33:08 which means, you invited the Holy Spirit, 33:12 the Lord be your Savior 33:13 and were filled with the Holy Spirit... 33:15 now, let me ask you this question, 33:19 you also said, "I became a born-again 33:23 Seventh-day Adventist Christian" 33:27 what do you mean by that? 33:29 Were you a big pork eater? 33:30 Were you... I mean... we know all of the... 33:33 what changes... was it... 33:35 why was it different to be an Adventist Christian? 33:38 I had about 30 or 35 dollars worth of center-cut pork chops 33:43 in my freezer at the time, 33:44 I knew I had to give up pork 33:46 and I struggled with that... "Now what am I going to do?" 33:48 Well, my sister and brother-in-law 33:49 lived about five miles outside of town on a ranch, 33:51 they had their own ranch... they had this German Shepherd 33:54 and I said, "Ah, I'll take it out there and give it to them 33:56 so they can give it to the German Shepherd" 33:58 and I thought about that for a few minutes... 34:00 "Naw... they're not going to give that food 34:02 to the German Shepherd, 34:03 they're going to cook 'em and eat 'em. " 34:04 So, I ended up taking them to the back of one of the... 34:06 little small community... we had three grocery stores 34:08 and I just went to one of the dumpsters at the grocery store 34:10 and just threw them away... 34:11 nobody got 'em. 34:12 So you were really convicted about the diet. 34:14 I was committed, I had no problem with the Sabbath 34:16 because I'd never kept Sunday, 34:18 I didn't have many years of a religious experience 34:21 to have to give up 34:22 I was just an open book. 34:24 So you saw in the Scripture and as... as this truth... 34:28 it just... it is easier to accept truth 34:33 when you're not trying to replace beliefs that are wrong. 34:36 Bob: Exactly, I didn't have to un-learn anything. 34:39 But now, let's talk about your physical condition 34:42 because you had been 37 pounds at the age of seven, 34:46 were you still a little slender thing here? 34:49 200 pounds... that night I was lying on my couch, 34:53 the town saw me lose 70 pounds in seven months 34:58 simply by adopting Genesis chapter 1 verse 29 35:02 and Genesis chapter 3 verse 18, that's where God... 35:06 Well, explain that for people 35:07 who may not have their Bibles right there. 35:09 Genesis 1:29 lays out the foods that we should eat 35:12 and there are no animal products included in that list, 35:15 it's all the original Eden diet 35:18 and then in chapter 3 verse 18, 35:21 after sin is when we were given the herb of the field 35:24 and today, that's what we know as vegetables. 35:26 Prior to that, everything was seed bearing, 35:28 nothing died... 35:29 and in Paradise, we didn't kill anything to eat it, 35:31 it just continued to perpetuate. 35:33 Well, there were things missing in our diet that we needed, 35:35 after sin entered and God provided for that 35:38 praise God... like He does for all of our needs 35:40 by giving us vegetables. 35:42 So maybe that's why your kids don't like vegetables, 35:44 it comes natural. 35:46 Well, and... and if you are just tuning in 35:50 to 3ABN for the first time, essentially it is that 35:56 God did distinguish when He told Adam to... not Adam... 36:02 when He told Noah to get the animals on the ark, 36:06 He distinguished between clean and unclean foods 36:10 and He had them coming in... 36:11 the unclean... in pairs onto the ark 36:14 but the clean animals... He had them come in seven pairs 36:19 and so, the whole point is that 36:22 it wasn't until after the flood 36:25 that... when all the vegetation and the fruits were destroyed, 36:29 that God had added meat to the diet 36:32 but He distinguished the clean meat 36:34 so, pork is one of those He said, "Don't eat... 36:38 it's an abomination. " 36:39 So, you are now not just being spiritually renewed 36:46 but you are being physically... 36:48 I can't imagine you 70 pounds heavier in the first place 36:51 but you're being physically renewed 36:54 and people around you are noticing this. 36:56 Yes, this has been a mystery to me for all these years, 37:00 my sister has never accepted this message, 37:03 she has had Seventh-day Adventist close friends 37:06 in her background for many years... 37:07 a lady lived next door to her 37:09 when her husband abandoned her in southern California 37:12 a Seventh-day Adventist lady took care of her kids 37:14 while she went back to college to finish her education 37:16 and she was a good Seventh-day Adventist Christian, 37:19 she shared literature... 37:20 my sister read something in Ellen White 37:22 that she just totally disagreed with 37:25 and she has, since then, never... 37:27 including now, after seeing what's gone on in my life, 37:30 has still never been willing to read anymore 37:32 or to even accept it... 37:33 she just closed her mind totally. 37:35 Shelley: That's sad. 37:36 The Sabbath... I've had discussions with her 37:37 on the Sabbath... she's seen me... how I go... 37:40 Shelley: Yeah, so, once again, you've got this two-week thing, 37:46 now we're going into body cleansing that... 37:49 I mean, God is really doing something for you, 37:52 how did you meet Alice 2? 37:56 A friend of mine... 37:57 in the small church there in Valentine, Nebraska 38:00 put me on a Christian Dating Service 38:03 through circumstances prior that... 38:05 I wasn't really interested but I had asked for it. 38:07 Shelley: You had joined the church 38:08 and this man was... became a close friend. 38:10 Bob: Yeah. Shelley: Okay. 38:12 Bob: And put me on a Christian Dating Service 38:13 thinking that I was looking for a wife... which I wasn't... 38:15 but he misinterpreted some statements that I'd made. 38:19 On a Sabbath Afternoon, he invited me home for lunch 38:23 and he said, "Come on down to the basement, 38:24 I want to show you something" 38:26 and there I was on a computer screen 38:27 on this Christian Dating Service. 38:29 And I said, "Well, Wendall, what's this?" 38:31 And he told me and I said, "I'm not interested" 38:34 you know, "I'm not looking for a wife" 38:36 I'm a year and half in the church, 38:37 all I had... I took every free Bible Study that 3ABN offers 38:41 every one of them, 38:42 Voice of Prophecy, It is Written, Amazing Facts, 38:44 whatever you guys have that 3ABN has produced, 38:46 I've done them all, 38:48 that was my life... and I just couldn't get enough of it, 38:50 well, he said, "Well" 38:52 he said, "We've got to do something with it, Bob... " 38:54 he said, "I paid ten bucks to get this thing on the computer" 38:57 and he said, "It's not refundable" 38:59 I said, "You know, Wendall, I'm sorry, 39:00 but I'm not interested in this so just forget it. " 39:03 And he said, "Well, we've already got this" 39:05 he said, "And I got to have this 39:06 so let's just play around for a couple of times 39:08 and see what happens. " 39:10 So, we contacted two or three women on this dating service 39:13 and nothing came of it except Alice... 39:17 Alice 2... no picture... no picture for me 39:21 his software was not compatible with "Shining Stars" 39:24 so, they couldn't see what I looked like, 39:26 through a series of miracles, 39:28 we tried communicating twice on the computer 39:32 after we got our initial conversation going 39:34 and that was not going to happen anymore 39:37 so we switched over to telephone. 39:39 Alice 2 and I... my current Alice... 39:42 were on the telephone for six weeks. 39:44 At the end of six weeks, we got married. 39:46 JD Quinn: Wow! Shelley: Praise God! 39:48 We like to tell people, "We had to get married, 39:49 we had the $500 phone bill, man, we couldn't keep... 39:51 you can't keep dating like this, man, we can't afford this. " 39:54 Shelley: That was back in the day, right? 39:56 Bob: Yes, yes... 39:58 she was familiar with Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg 40:00 in Tennessee 40:02 and that's where she wanted to get married 40:03 and I said, "That's fine, I'll marry you anywhere, 40:05 you know, I just love you and I want to get married anyway. " 40:07 So we had all the arrangements for our marriage 40:09 and our wedding was all made and paid for on Credit Card. 40:12 Now, the final agreement was... 40:14 I'm going to fly from Valentine, Nebraska 40:16 down to Charlotte, North Carolina 40:18 which was where she was working part-time 40:19 for the Carolina Conference of Seventh-day Adventists 40:21 and that's when we were going to make our final decision. 40:24 Shelley: Had you met at all? Bob: No... no, no, no. 40:26 Shelley: So, you've got the whole... 40:27 Bob: Everything... phone, total 100 percent communication, 40:31 I didn't have to impress her with what I wore for clothing, 40:34 what kind of car I drove, what I did for entertainment. 40:36 Shelley: But you had your wedding planned... 40:38 did you... you hadn't even met her... 40:39 didn't even know what she looked like? 40:41 Bob: No, well, by this time I did. 40:43 Let's put this little caveat in there, 40:46 I could have sent her a picture of JD... 40:48 how would she have known? 40:50 She could have sent me a picture of you... 40:51 how would I have known? 40:53 So, you really... don't put so much store 40:54 in the "picture thing" 40:56 but that's something our mind focuses on 40:58 and you know, it was nice, 40:59 I wanted to see what she looked like 41:00 and she wanted to see what I looked like, 41:02 but don't base your relationship on that... 41:05 you know, looks can be gone just that fast... 41:07 if we have a little accident... disease... whatever... 41:09 if nothing else, age is going to get you 41:12 so, don't worry about the looks, 41:14 worry about the spiritual. 41:16 JD Quinn: Amen. Shelley: Amen. 41:17 And she was very... 41:19 Alice has got a very powerful testimony of her own 41:21 and unfortunately, many times, I overshadow... 41:23 she shares when she gets a chance 41:25 but most of the time, I'm like this and... 41:27 she doesn't get that much of a chance. 41:29 So, anyway... 41:31 JD Quinn: You got married, this was when... say... '99... 41:33 Bob: This was '99... yes... and I told her, 41:35 I said, "Now, when we get... " 41:38 we made the decision, we met in Charlotte, 41:39 we said, "Yes, we're getting married" 41:41 we were going to get married something like Christmas... 41:43 Thanksgiving... New Year's... 41:44 4th of July... something like... 41:45 I said, "With the way I scrambled my brain, 41:47 I'm not going to remember our first anniversary 41:49 and don't want you to kill me on our first anniversary... " 41:51 we got married three days after my birthday. 41:54 Shelley: All right, how many years had you been married 41:56 when you came to 3ABN and what brought you to 3ABN? 41:59 Well, let's see... when we came to 3ABN 42:01 we would have been married... it would have been 19 this year 42:04 so it would have been what? 15 then... 42:06 Shelley: Okay. 42:07 Bob: We would have been married 15 years at that time. 42:08 We had colporteured... Alice... 42:12 Shelley: Now, for those who don't know what a colporteur is, 42:15 that's a Literature Evangelist, people go door to door 42:19 and sell... and give away Christian literature. 42:22 Yes, Alice knew that I was on fire 42:25 and she moved from all of her family... 42:28 all but one of her daughters, 42:29 her two daughters from a previous marriage... 42:30 all lived in the Charlotte area 42:32 less than an hour apart from each other. 42:33 When she married me, 42:35 one of my conditions on this dating service was, 42:38 "I'm not leaving Valentine, Nebraska, this is it... " 42:40 my dad was there, 42:41 my granddad... his dad was there before that, 42:43 there was a 100-year tradition in that family 42:44 with the Eads' name and I was just going to stay there. 42:47 That was... thinking up here... not listening to God. 42:50 Alice knew I was on fire... 42:52 I got to get this guy out of this little town 42:53 and get him out where he can work for God. 42:55 JD Quinn: Amen. 42:56 So, we were going to go to the Black Hills Institute 42:59 and go to their long program 43:00 which gives you Literature Evangelism 43:02 Lay Pastor, Bible Worker, 43:06 multiple possibilities of what you can do 43:08 and that was our goal. 43:10 We actually went there... enrolled... 43:12 we never went there... 43:13 we had an opportunity... 43:15 when God brought Alice 2 into my life 43:16 that brought my son back into my life after 24 years. 43:19 Shelley: Praise God. 43:20 They lived about four hours from each other, 43:22 she's in Charlotte, North Carolina, 43:23 He was near Charleston, South Carolina. 43:25 Shelley: Praise God. 43:26 And I had already started making efforts 43:27 to see if I could contact my ex-wife 43:29 and find my son which I had, 43:31 actually, the Pastor that... that ordained me as an Elder 43:35 helped us to get me together with my son 43:39 and so, I went to Charlotte, I met her, we did all of that, 43:43 there was a house being purchased... 43:45 another one being sold... 43:46 I mean, sometimes it's... it gets to be scrambled. 43:48 Kind of fast forward here 43:50 because we're getting down toward the end here, 43:53 how did you get to 3ABN? 43:55 In the last couple of years of our tenure 43:59 as Literature Evangelists/ Colporteurs, 44:02 I still enjoy the older term better... "Colporteur" 44:06 new management had come in to the Organization. 44:11 Now, they had looked back at our record of... 44:15 Shelley: Service? 44:17 Bob: No, the financial aspects of it... of our earnings... 44:20 of our earnings 44:21 and the new guy that had come in... 44:23 the Publishing Director said, "You know Bob... " 44:25 he said, "You're just not doing it, 44:27 you need to get a job so you can support your wife. " 44:29 Well, at the time, we were debt free. 44:32 I think this was God working, 44:34 so, we were released from service, 44:36 they said, "You know, we just... 44:38 we think you should get work and support your family. " 44:41 So, we were like, "Oh Lord, what are we going to do now? 44:44 We've got a month's rent and utilities in the bank 44:46 and then that's it... we're on the street. 44:48 Well, God stepped in, 44:49 we still haven't seen 3ABN involved in this yet, 44:52 but that's... it's coming, 44:53 so, we couldn't get work anywhere... 44:55 this was late October, 44:57 people were hiring for Christmas... part-time at least, 44:59 I couldn't get hired as a Greeter at Walmart 45:02 or a Wrangler... Buggy Wrangler... 45:04 we could not get work anywhere, 45:06 we went to a local college... 45:08 Community College... they were giving a Program 45:11 on how to do a resume... because we had no clue 45:13 in that process, we found out 45:15 that the State paid for a Diploma, Certificate 45:18 or the higher one... 45:20 JD Quinn: Diploma... 45:22 Bob: No, higher than the Diploma... Degree 45:23 and they would pay all expenses, 45:25 we ended up as college students 45:27 because that's all where we could make a living. 45:28 We were going to get paid to go to school, 45:30 we were eligible for Pell Grant money 45:32 which was $5,500 a piece 45:34 so there was 11,000 dollars that we could live on for a year 45:36 while we were going to school, 45:38 we assumed at the end of the year, 45:39 we were going to get work, 45:41 so, as an upshot, my dad died, there was a small inheritance 45:46 and we came here to look at a home 45:48 that Alice had been in contact with somebody on Facebook 45:51 that was a church member in Thompsonville. 45:53 Shelley: Why did you come here? 45:54 I came here because I wanted to do... 45:57 I wanted to be involved in this ministry from 3ABN... 46:00 it's my life... 46:01 if it hadn't been for 3ABN, I wouldn't be a Christian, 46:04 I honestly believe I would have been lost 46:06 had it not been for 3ABN Programming 46:09 in conjunction with Amazing Facts 46:11 I... 46:12 Shelley: So, this was the desire of your heart 46:14 and you saw... God opened the door 46:17 and when you came down here, your intent was... 46:22 both of you were going to volunteer. 46:24 Yes, I had contacted previously and found out 46:25 that there were no paid positions available... 46:27 so we said... 46:28 and they said, "But we're accepting applications 46:30 for volunteers, if you want to come and do that" 46:33 so, they had all the paperwork ready... waiting... 46:35 we came here on a Monday, we got here on the weekend 46:37 came in on a Monday... started filling out the paperwork, 46:39 then we went through the interview process with Molly, 46:41 told her the things I could do, 46:43 she says, "Fine, you'll work with... 46:45 train you on camera... it's no problem, 46:46 Alice, what do you do?" 46:48 She started listing off and she just looked at Alice 46:50 and said, "Alice, you want a job?" 46:51 Well, we were told there were no paid positions, we didn't... 46:53 "Alice, do you want a job?" 46:55 And she said, "Yeah, I guess, doing what?" 46:58 She took her back to Tim Lass... 46:59 he took about an hour with her and came out and said, 47:01 "Fine, yeah, she works in Programming" 47:04 He said, "She'll do fine" so, that was it. 47:06 And I know that you're very involved with Prison Ministry... 47:09 Bob: Yes. 47:10 JD Quinn: since you've been here... 47:11 You know, that has become a love of your heart. 47:13 Bob: Amen. 47:14 And what all are you involved with? 47:16 Well, we do three different prisons, 47:19 there's the Federal Prison in Marion, Illinois 47:21 we go there every Sabbath morning, 47:22 there's a State Penitentiary 47:25 near Ina which is about 20 miles from here 47:28 we go there Thursday nights 47:30 and then on the 2nd and 4th Sabbath of the month, 47:33 we go to another State Penitentiary 47:36 in a small community of Pinckneyville in... 47:39 also in southern Illinois... 47:40 and we do... right now we go through the Quarterlies, 47:44 we make sure all of the inmates that attend our programming, 47:46 we give them a Quarterly 47:48 so they can keep up with what we're doing, 47:49 what we're studying... 47:50 in the Federal Prison they're allowed twice a month... 47:52 they actually teach the lesson 47:54 different ones will accept the responsibility 47:56 and they will teach the lesson. 47:57 JD Quinn: Amen. 47:59 Sometimes it's a sermon, 48:00 right now we're going through a video production 48:01 of studies on the book of Revelation... 48:04 JD Quinn: So all this... all this 48:06 as you've learned since 1997... 48:08 now you're actually getting to put it into action 48:12 all this time through... learning through colporteurism, 48:16 Literature Evangelist... 48:18 you were out there representing the Lord Jesus Christ... 48:22 Bob: Yes. 48:23 JD Quinn: So, you're still working 48:24 and you're working harder than you probably ever worked. 48:27 Bob: Yes. 48:28 JD Quinn: more diligently and with more passion. 48:30 Shelley: And you're actually an employee of 3ABN... 48:32 Bob: I am. 48:33 Shelley: You volunteered what... the first two years? 48:34 Bob: Yes... the second year here, 48:36 I fell off a little ladder at home, 48:38 it wasn't at work... broke a hip 48:40 by the time all that mess was over with... 48:41 it took about another year and a half... 48:43 during which time I worked part-time off and on 48:45 when I could 48:47 and then, financially... 48:48 Alice, by this time, was not able to work full time 48:50 so, I approached 3ABN 48:52 and they were kind enough to hire me on 48:54 as a part-time employee... so now I am an employee. 48:57 Shelley: Amen. 48:58 Bob: I liked it much better as a volunteer 49:01 because then, I could volunteer to do anything 49:03 sometimes now I'm a little bit restricted in what I can do 49:05 and I... just... 49:07 I want to help anybody in any way that I can. 49:09 It doesn't matter the Department or what this... 49:11 what the task is... 49:12 Shelley: You know the thing I've always enjoyed about you 49:15 is... you know, we say to each other, 49:17 at Church... "Happy Sabbath, happy Sabbath" 49:20 this one comes in and "Happy Tuesday" 49:23 "Happy Thursday" 49:24 whatever... you're a very happy man 49:26 because the Lord has changed your life, 49:29 totally and completely, you are a new creation in Christ 49:32 but this is something that 49:34 you bring a lot of joy to our Department... 49:39 I mean, our ministry here... 49:41 Bob: Praise God. 49:43 Shelley: But you're still involved in... 49:45 you do a lot of airport runs 49:46 and he's constantly giving out literature 49:50 wherever you are. 49:51 Bob: Yes, absolutely. 49:53 People, let me tell you something, 49:54 Danny's latest book, "Spiritual Vigilantes" 49:57 is so easy to give away, 49:58 carry them with you, ladies, you have a pocketbook... 50:00 a purse... carry your purse... 50:02 I carry them in every van that I drive for 3ABN 50:04 in my personal vehicles 50:06 and all you have to do is... you don't have to know anybody, 50:08 it's, "Did you get your free book yet?" 50:11 That's it... little smile on your face... 50:13 "Did you get your free book yet?" 50:14 "Oh no, what free book?" 50:15 "Well, here, you got one now. " 50:17 99.9 percent of the time, people will take that book 50:19 and I take the "Share Cards" 50:20 and put that inside the front cover so they have... 50:22 Shelley: What is a Share Card? 50:24 That is a card that tells you how to contact 3ABN 50:26 and all of the programming that is available through 3ABN. 50:29 Shelley: All the ways to get it. 50:30 Bob: All the ways to get it, yes. 50:32 Whether it is on... 50:34 it's not just 3ABN broadcast over the television 50:38 but we also have 3ABN YouTube, 50:40 we're on all kinds of social media. 50:43 Bob: Yes... 50:45 Shelley: So that's what those Share Cards... 50:47 and we want to encourage each one of you... 50:49 you can get those "Share Cards" for free, 50:51 just call the Call Center, 50:53 ask them to send you... 50 or a 100 50:55 and when you go out, you can give these to somebody 50:58 because they may not have 3ABN on television, 51:01 but most everybody's got a Smartphone 51:04 and they can download the 3ABN App on the Smartphone 51:08 or they can get on to YouTube 51:10 so, it's a great way to do that. 51:12 There's no... there's no cost for the books, 51:14 if you're out there shipping... I think it's $18.50 for 100, 51:19 there are a 100 books in a box, 51:20 I'm currently on... I've lost track... 51:22 it's either the fourth or fifth box 51:24 that I've given out personally 51:26 since Danny produced the book, 51:28 it's so easy... and you can reach so many people that way. 51:31 Don't hesitate... you don't have to preach, 51:34 you don't have to be anything special in the church, 51:36 all you have to do... carry the books 51:38 and offer them to somebody, God will see to it... 51:40 somebody will take that book. 51:41 Shelley: Amen... and we're... 51:43 we're going to have to go here to Newsbreak 51:44 in just a second 51:46 but that... the book is, "Spiritual Vigilantes" 51:48 once again, you can call the Call Center 51:51 and... 618-627-4651 51:56 and they can ship you those books, 51:58 costs... for shipping is $18 and a half cents, I think, 52:03 $18.50 for a hundred 52:06 so... but you may not want a 100, 52:08 if you just want to get 10 or 20 or 50... you can. 52:11 So, Bob, we're going to come back in just a moment 52:15 because we got to get a concluding thought from you 52:18 but I'm just so excited what God has done in your life 52:22 and I've never heard your entire testimony before 52:25 so, this is a lot of fun 52:27 but we want to encourage you to stay tuned... 52:31 we're got to go to Newsbreak 52:32 but we'll be back in just a moment 52:33 for our closing thought. |
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