Doctors D & S

We were attending a charismatic church where our children were going to their private school. One Sunday, on our way to church, we felt led by the Spirit to get on I-85 and go north. We saw New Testament Christian Center (NTCC) and came for a visit. Pastor Mitchell followed up with a visit to our home and introduced The Way More Perfectly. At that time it was about half completed. When he got to John 3:5, he prayed in his heart and asked God to help him relate the gospel to us medically using a parable-type illustration. Immediately he felt led to say that natural birth and spiritual birth were very similar. Not knowing just where this would lead, he proceeded to ask us about the birth process. I am an Internist and my wife is a Pediatrician specializing in G.I. tract disorders, so this was natural for us. The first step of pain, blood, toil and tears was compared to the struggle of repentance and the blood of Jesus covering our sins. The next step was about the breaking of the water and the baby passing through it. That was compared to baptism. Then Pastor Mitchell asked if the next step was to make sure the heart was beating. Sesi informed him that she looked for different evidence—the loud cry of life. Successful birth depended on all the air passages being clear and the wind getting into the lungs. The pastor compared that to a person being born again as the wind of the Holy Ghost enters in and he/she begins speaking in tongues. We perfectly understood this illustration and in the next few weeks we both were baptized and received the Holy Ghost. Pastor Mitchell now uses that illustration in The Way More Perfectly.