AV Bible Believers Fellowship

I accepted Christ on Jan 5, 1972 ~8:30 PM. It was a very exciting thing. I was in church and wham I was faced with stress and strain and all of a sudden I realized that I was standing in a position that I could actually accept Christ (the real and true salvation) as God was calling me and I had this fear that this is my last chance and all of a sudden I had a sign of relief and knew I could accept Christ and be in the family of God and be saved.

I went to the alter in front of the church and prayed and again stress; but, rose up and praise and thanked God and went to the pulpit and spoke. It was a wonderful feeling. We fellowshipped and sang songs and everyone in the church was up and walking around and hugging one another and singing. This went on and no one ever returned to their seat and sing and a word and singing. Then church was dismissed. We went outside; everyone was talking and finally I broke in and said, OK, now what - where do we go? I felt that we were to continue at someone's home or something and now realized I had to go home. Then it was basically daily fellowship at someone's home and church 4-5 times a week and all was so wonderful.

About a month later I was baptized in the N fork of the Holston River. It was in the 20's; so, we broke the ice at water's edge and went in.

I am so thankful that a loving God let me see and come to Christ for salvation. He has been my best and closest friend and companion over the years.

I belong to a Baptist church established in 1854. I have, over the years, belonged to independant churches, Southern Baptist and American Baptist - basically all believing the same. Local church, Bible is inspired word of God and church ordinances of Baptism and communion plus one church ocassionally or rarely would wash feet.

I am please to say that I have heard and been friends with some great preachers (some alive to and some passed): Charles Cash is a very dear friend of my and preaching for 42 yrs, BR Lakin (friend, passed) great orator and preacher of the Gospel, Jack Green (Oliver B Green's brother) and RG Lee to name some. Many more I've heard and respect like Harold B. Slightler and Charles Stanley (only heard; don't know him). I have great admiration for Walter St. Clair (still alive and a super great man of God whom I respect as though he were an apostle; he has started 25 churches in the mission field and visits them and goes to the lepor colonies to preach the gospel). Lester Rolloff was a wonderful person, preacher and another of the apostlic mission whom I respect; I was only out there shortly in TX but what a ministery he had and it still is ongoing.

I am so thankful for the grace of God and His loving mercy that I was lowly and an awful person without love in my heart but He saw fit and harkened unto me that I might come to know Christ.

I wish to be in the open so you will know me and that I am not one that is a wolf trying to sneak into the sheep fold to bring confussion and cast doubt.

I am a consulting engineer to industry (pulp, paper, power and petroleum) and try to maintain good stewardship to bring honor to Christ and walk upright before manking as not to be ashamed. At my best I can only say that my goodness and righteousness is as filthy rags. Only Christ and His good is the only good about me. Without Him, I am nothing. Without Christ, I have no knowledge.

We're very, very pleased that you decided to join us here, and appreciate you taking time to introduce yourself. i hope that this little forum will be a blessing to you, and I'm confident that you'll be a blessing to us.

We are a tiny little forum, but unique among all the "Christian" forums I've seen on the Net. We're not interested in arguing or fussing; we just want to be a quiet pasture where God's sheep and lambs can enjoy Him, His perfect word, the King James Bible, and each other. We have some heavy doctrinal discussion, and a whole lot of silliness; basically, we're exactly what our name says: a fellowship.

The real backbone of our forum is prayer. Our members have prayed each other through some very "minor" problems, and also through some truly life-threatening crises. We really do pray for one another, and the Lord hears us: not because any of us are great "prayer warriors," but because of the Object of our prayers: Jesus Christ, Who is a great God! We hope that, as you have requests (even unspoken ones), you'll share them in our prayer section.

If you want to see the crazy people who actually serve this site, you might check out our Meet the Staff section. If any of us can help you in any way, please contact us by private message.

God bless you, brother! And now, here's the Official AVBBF Welcoming Committee:

Brother Sam!

Hello! I love your testimony! To tell you the truth, I'm a little envious of it. I'm not sure if it's a sin to envy someone's testimony, but I do. I'm glad you're here.

Good evening Beloved of God and thank you for the warm welcome. Green pasture and fellowship is good; not having to defend God's inspired word is wonderful as you know you are among believers. It is so tiring when you say the Bible is true and God's words are infallible to hear some say that they are only words of fallible man and thus need some special divine revelation so you will change those words to the real meanings by your spirit.

Or, no one could believe the GEN account. To be able to discuss the Holy Scriptures in harmony is a solace.

Well, you're in the right place! We believe God's words, even when we don't understand them. Who cares what we understand? The point is, What did God say?

Someone said that the two prerequisites to learning the Bible are not "scholarship" or even great intelligence: they are a humble heart, and a believing mind. That's our approach, and we're glad you're here.

Welcome.

I love in your testimony how after you got saved it was such a wonderful feeling of fellowship and you didn't want it to end.Once church was dismissed you asked "now what?" ...keen to continue.

Welcome Brother Sam.

Welcome Brother.