Story: Tony

Tony, a congregant at Bethlehem, described what being saved meant to him in a 2012 interview. 

"Christ gave me a life. He puts his life into mine, and all my sin- past, present and future sin go down to Him at the cross, and it was buried with Him, and He rose and that’s the Gospel. And all that is just gone, and He does not see me as Tony, He sees me as His son. I heard the gospel being preached at a wedding, and for the first time in my life I heard it, and I recognized the deadness in my own heart. And I just knew I needed something, I needed Christ. And I just, I asked God silently at this wedding, as I was watching my friend get married, “God please change me and create me a new heart.” He did, and I walked away from that wedding a new person in Christ: the things I once hated, I loved, and the things I once loved, I hated, and started to read my Bible, something I never did before even though I grew up going to a Christian school. I knew who Jesus was but I never connected to that belief before."