I knew at once that I had to share this
information with others. I felt I needed to speak it before I
wrote it; speaking was quicker. And so, I hit the road. I
eventually made eight cassette tapes on the topic, five on a
single Saturday at meetings in Newport News, Virginia, one on
a Sunday morning in a church in Detroit, and two in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, in the auditorium of an unlikely place
called "The Ladies’ Literary Guild."
I put it all these messages together
and called the set The Sin Series. I offered it to my
subscribers and stood back to see what would
happen.
The series was a hit. It was one of
those rare things that pleased God to make go. The messages
changed people’s lives. The information was true, and people
knew it. Old people knew it, young people knew it, everyone
but the self-righteously religious knew it. People said,
"Where has this been all my life?" (Religionists said other
things, including, "You are the most dangerous man in
Christendom.") As the revelation began to take hold, folks
from all over began writing to tell me how much sense it all
made to them, how it confirmed for them things the spirit was
doing in their lives, how it eliminated crippling guilt, and
how it actually—are you ready for this?—took the urge to sin
away from them. And all because
I told them they were free to sin!
Now comes the product you are once
again staring in wonderment at.
Neil Armstrong was the first person on
the moon, darn him. Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Everest
without me; how rude. The Beatles—blast my luck—made
strawberry fields fashionable before I had a chance to. What
frontier remained? This: Make a compact disc that looked
exactly like a music CD, but fill it with short, bite-sized
pieces of scripture-teaching truth. Indeed, here was something
that not even Lennon and McCartney had thought of.
When you and I have wanted to pass
along a scriptural teaching in the past, our only recourse has
been to hand someone an audio cassette of some person talking
non-stop for an hour. But not many people can swallow teaching
in such a format. A person has to really want truth in order
to wade through sixty minutes of non-stop "preaching." Could
truth be made more palatable? Did it have to be "preaching?" I
thought, Why not break down a
longer teaching into easily-digestible bits, make them into
tracks—allowing listeners to go easily to their favorite
parts—and make it visually appealing by packaging it like a
music CD? Then, make the "preacher" look like anything
but!
You are staring in wonderment at the
result. I have taken the first four tapes from The Sin
Series—the heart of the messages—and distilled and
digitally remastered them into eighteen tracks that will set
you free forever. Each track is bookended by music (cool
music, thank you), that leads into the message, fades out,
then fades back in at the end of the message, then fades back
out at the end of each track; even the Beatles would have
listened to this. I know God likes it, for it satisfies the
single requirement of His task for me: make truth accessible
to the common man.
Hey Jude, don’t be afraid. Listen to
these "songs," and God will make things
better. |