Praise the LORD for his work in the life of Jim Price! Praise the LORD that his Word is powerful to save sinners! Praise the LORD that he can even use Google in the process! How does this relate to the Bible Answers Project? God is at work. His Word is mighty to save sinners. And Google search can be part of the process.
You never know where a Google search will take you (Jim Price).
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven [says the LORD] and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it (Isaiah 55:10-11).
This summer, my 17-year-old son and I have been reading Douglas Bond’s excellent book Fathers and Sons: Stand Fast In the Way of Truth (P&R Publishing, 2008).
A couple of weeks ago, my son and I read chapter 23: “The Power of the Holy Book.”
This chapter tells the amazing true story of Jim Price.
It is a story of how God used the power of his written Word – and the Google search engine – to transform a man from an unchurched “worldly wise man” into a true believer who began attending a local church.
The story of Jim Price is a great example of why the Bible Answers Project is so important.
And it is a case study of how we pray the Bible Answers Project will be used in the lives of 100s and 1,000s of unchurched people in the months and years to come.
When Jim Price was a young boy, his parents took him to church regularly for a brief time, but this stopped after he was about 10 years old.
“In high school,” Jim writes, “I read Herman Hesse and the Bhagavad-Gita, wrote poetry, cut classes, took drugs, and listened to the Moody Blues. Inexplicably, I failed to become one with the universe.”
Disillusioned by his high school hippy phase, Jim instead poured himself into the pursuit of worldly success
After serving in the Air Force, he launched his career as an engineer, and co-founded a software company.
Then, one day, Jim “realized that the company was a success, and that [he] needed a change of pace.”