Comments on: How He Loves Us http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/467 Living close enough to the edge to matter... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:12:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Chris L. http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/467/comment-page-1#comment-104036 Chris L. Tue, 25 May 2010 21:23:53 +0000 http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/?p=467#comment-104036 Austin, Thank you for sharing your story - I've had a couple friends of mine who died (both in car crashes), and each had a big impact on the world, which continues to reverberate. Blessings to you, Chris Austin,

Thank you for sharing your story – I’ve had a couple friends of mine who died (both in car crashes), and each had a big impact on the world, which continues to reverberate.

Blessings to you,

Chris

]]> By: Austin http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/467/comment-page-1#comment-103918 Austin Sun, 23 May 2010 01:51:14 +0000 http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/?p=467#comment-103918 My 2 best friends died in 2008 within 3 months of each other. One, Ethan, died in a car accident and the other, Josh, died after close to a year long struggle with an in-opperable brain tumor. When we were in 5th grade Josh told me that hed die if it was possible to bring 1 person to life from it. on May 16th 2007 at the end of our 8th grade year he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and brought his first salvation to christ throughout the year Josh's story touched thousands up on thousands of lives, many whom never met him. When he died our church did 3 visitations for the teenagers and at all 3 visitations and the funeral there were at least 200 different people that accepted Christ so through out that one year Josh brought over 3000 people to Christ and thats just who we know about.- Now about Ethan. Ethan went to the same church that Josh and I went to. At the church we have a big youth event and at that time we were running about 80 people, on August 5th 2008 at Vision (our youth event) Ethan got up front and said that we all, everyone there, needed to pick and choose Christ or the world. He said the same thing Josh had said, he said " In order to save just one highschooler at Harris County". I took it real hard after the both of their deaths, and about August 2009 i accepted Christ. Im not a song writer and have no talent in that industry but the first time i heard this song i fell apart when John Mark McMillan talked aout his best friend dying and as i thought about the song i realized that if i were to have been blessed in songwrtiting the song i wrote wouldve probably turned out the way he wrote this. I know thats a long story but i Just wanted yall to see the similarity of John Mark McMillans story and my story of my friends. My 2 best friends died in 2008 within 3 months of each other. One, Ethan, died in a car accident and the other, Josh, died after close to a year long struggle with an in-opperable brain tumor. When we were in 5th grade Josh told me that hed die if it was possible to bring 1 person to life from it. on May 16th 2007 at the end of our 8th grade year he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and brought his first salvation to christ throughout the year Josh’s story touched thousands up on thousands of lives, many whom never met him. When he died our church did 3 visitations for the teenagers and at all 3 visitations and the funeral there were at least 200 different people that accepted Christ so through out that one year Josh brought over 3000 people to Christ and thats just who we know about.- Now about Ethan. Ethan went to the same church that Josh and I went to. At the church we have a big youth event and at that time we were running about 80 people, on August 5th 2008 at Vision (our youth event) Ethan got up front and said that we all, everyone there, needed to pick and choose Christ or the world. He said the same thing Josh had said, he said ” In order to save just one highschooler at Harris County”. I took it real hard after the both of their deaths, and about August 2009 i accepted Christ. Im not a song writer and have no talent in that industry but the first time i heard this song i fell apart when John Mark McMillan talked aout his best friend dying and as i thought about the song i realized that if i were to have been blessed in songwrtiting the song i wrote wouldve probably turned out the way he wrote this. I know thats a long story but i Just wanted yall to see the similarity of John Mark McMillans story and my story of my friends.

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