Bigstuph Blog – Thoughts from Steve

During my 5 month sabbatical I was “introduced” to Francis Chan, although I can not recall who told me about him.  After watching a handful of videos, I started to listen to his podcast sermons.  The guy was speaking TRUTH from God’s word.  He was wiping away the grey that I had let filter into my life.   When I was 14 years old, I was hospitalized after a water skiing accident.  I was trick skiing and I was “attempting” a helicopter.  This trick was being performed for about 12 or so spectators that were riding in the boat.  My attempt to hit the wake and do a 360 failed and I shattered my right femur.  As a result of the accident I had to be in the hospital for 6 weeks in traction.  The trauma of the accident somehow punctured my right kidney with a quarter size hole.  In order to see the hole in the kidney I had to have an x-ray with iodine.I was severely allergic to the iodine, and my throat closed up and eventually my heart stopped beating.  I was in and out of consciousness for 45 minutes or so.  After it all ended the doctor came in and said “son you were on your deathbed, God must have a purpose for your life, because you should not be here” Shortly after this experience, I began to felt called to shake up the church.  I use to read scripture as a 14 year old and recognize the obvious differences between what scripture says and how I was living my life.  I read scripture in a “black and white” fashion.  This “idealism” for seeing God’s word for what it was slowly went away over the years, and although I have always felt called to “wake up the church” I began to live my life just like everyone else. Until I ran across the sermons and the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan.  This reading scripture for what it says, rekindled my spirit and desire to learn more and so I was provided the chance to spend sometimes up to 8 hours a day in God’s word.  This went on for weeks, then months.  During this time the word of God became alive again.  More to come… 

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