TESTIMONIES: You Never Know the True Urgency of Sharing Your Faith
A man with whom he had worked many years ago “happened” to watch a video of Paul Paoli’s testimony on Facebook about his conversion to faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. The man left a message saying he wanted to get a cup of coffee with him.
Paul Paoli (Screenshot from YouTube).
Paul recalled that the man had been totally uninterested in spiritual conversations when the two men were colleagues, so he was quite surprised to get the coffee invitation in response to his testimony.
When the two men met, it turned out that the man had been through multiple trials in the intervening years, including losing a teenage son to illness, as well as some physical trials of his own.
He told Paul that he watched his testimony video and wanted to know if God was real. That began weekly meetings in which Paul and the man together read through the Bible, talked about why Jesus came from Heaven to the Earth, and why He was willing to die on the cross.
That Jesus was literally resurrected from the grave three days later proved that He was indeed exactly what He claimed to be, the Son of God, and the only way to spend eternity in Heaven. The man came to understand, accepted Christ as his savior, and began living a transformed life.
But then Paul got a call one day that he didn’t expect …. no, I’m not going to tell you, you just have to watch to the following 5:32 video from Forever Changed: