Jason Helopoulos

He said, what the law demands of us, the gospel produces in us.

Else ours is no gospel at all.

And theirs was no gospel at all.

Remember, when this first hit me, I was in college.

I was a freshman.

I went to university as an atheist, an avowed atheist, and was a very committed atheist.

And I was invited by some Christian students to come to a Christian fellowship.

And I had promised a friend back home before I went off to school that fall that I would attend at one time.

And she called a couple of upperclassmen who called me every single day for the first week of school and said, he promised me.

And so they hounded me.

But it was really the hound of heaven that had me in his eyes.

And so I finally, just to fulfill that promise, I went to this Christian fellowship and I sat there under the word.

And it was a...

A day that I was in a college dorm room, all the guys on my floor were together in this college dorm room.

And I was feeling pretty good about myself this day because I had new red wing boots.

Oh, they were lovely.

Manly, lovely, manly, lovely.

And I loved them and was so proud to be wearing them.

And a guy in that crowded room, he stomped on my boots.

And jokingly, I pushed him.