Johnathan Bond

He was 39 years old with a life that looked completely perfect. He called me the other day asking if we could meet for food and some conversation. The conversation began with, “Nothing makes sense to me. I am happily married, 2 wonderful kids, a great job and money in the bank, however I am considering suicide because of this dang depression. I have been reading your Testimony Tuesdays and I just felt compelled to give you a call. No one knows of what I am going through, not even my wife. What do I do?” During this deep, emotional two hour conversation, I asked what his relationship was like with JESUS. He said, “I have been in church all of my life and I still attend pretty regularly, when I am not too busy.” I said, “That did not answer my question. What is your relationship with JESUS like?” He seemed to get a little upset with me, but I kept pushing. Finally he said, “I don’t know if I have ever been saved. I just don’t know.” I, of course, said if you don’t know, then you haven’t been. I promise you, you can never forget meeting such an awesome person! I said to him, “Why don’t you ask JESUS to be your LORD and SAVIOR right now?” He said, is there a church that will let us come in this late? I let him know that we didn’t need a building, all we needed is JESUS. I was able to lead him in the sinners prayer. So awesome! How about a man being born again at PF Changs! That is cool stuff, right there! I encouraged him to go and tell his wife and talk to his pastor about him surrendering his life to GOD. I also encouraged him to start pouring in the GOOD NEWS of GOD on a daily basis by reading HIS word. I also talked with him a little bit about developing a friendship/relationship with JESUS!