WHAT LIVING IS ALL ABOUT - Forrest Frank

Doctor Neil Frank

Neil, would you come up here and stand beside me for a moment?

Several years ago, I came out of church one Sunday morning

Met an airline pilot

He asked me a very simple question

He said, "What are you really doing here?"

I thought for a minute and I said, "Well, we got small children

And we think it's important that they be in Sunday School"

He said, "If there's something here for them

Don't you think there might be something here for you?"

How dare this guy challenge me on what I was doing every morning

But I went home, and after the anger subsided

I became more rational

And if I was honest with you tonight, I'm telling you

I set out to prove that there was no God

So that I could go to the golf course on Sunday morning

And not have my conscience bother me

But one day in frustration

Driving down I-95, going to work

I just looked up and said, "God, I confess that I'm a sinner

If that's what selfishness is, then I'm a sinner"

And you know what happened? Nothing

I didn't see any angels

I didn't hear the Heavenly choir

I didn't have any sense of peace, I just puttered on down the road

Went to work

Got home that night, I'd almost forgot about the incident

And I picked up my Bible, see, I'm still tryna prove there's no God

And somebody messed with my book

Somebody messed with my book

I understood things that I didn't understand the night before

That's right, that's right

It says in the fourth chapter of Second Corinthians

"But there is a veil over the eyes of the unbeliever

That they can not discern the truth"

But it says in the third chapter

When you turn in repentance, that veil is lifted

And that veil was lifted

And I became a new creature in Christ Jesus

And my, you bet there was a change in my life

A change in my value system

A change in my understanding

And certainly a change in my concept of this person of Christ

Have you had your veil lifted tonight?

Let me tell you the great tragedy in modern America

The great tragedy is that many of us have never taken the time

To find out what living is all about

To find out what living's all about

And to answer, maybe

What I consider to be the most important question in life

Is there a God, and if there is, what must I do to be related to Him?

'Preciate the opportunity to share