Marty Stutts

I was raised in a Christian home and always knew I would follow Jesus. Palm Sunday, when I was 10, at the end of the service several people answered the call to accept Jesus. I was one of them. I remember the minister asking that morning, “Do you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God, and do you accept him as your Lord and Savior?” I said yes. Those were the most powerful words in my life.

For the next several years I lived a moral life and what I thought was a Christian life. I attended church, was active in our church youth group, didn’t lie, cheat, or steal and believed completely that I was saved and would go to heaven.

After college, I relocated for my job and joined a local church. My Sunday school teacher and his wife amazed me. They were the first people I had ever seen that I thought truly lived a Christian life. They trusted Jesus to meet their needs and answer their prayers. It was quite evident to me that Jesus was the Lord and Master of their lives. They had a personal relationship with Jesus. The question that my minister had asked me years before started to haunt me. I hadn’t understood the “accept him as your Lord” part of the question. I stopped living just a moral life and started learning what it meant to let Jesus guide my life and to let him have complete control.

I turned my life over completely to Jesus and like my Sunday school teacher demonstrated, I now trust Jesus to be in control of my life and have his guidance and peace every day.

Marty Stutts