Shawn Ryan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What do you mean, how do I know?
I'm a good kid.
I get good grades in school.
I pretty much obey my parents.
I'm trying to justify my goodness entering the heaven.
And he looked at me and he said, that doesn't matter.
And a chill went down my, how can that not matter?
All my efforts to be dutiful and compliant as a kid, you say it doesn't matter?
And then he said, someday you'll understand.
And he disappeared.
And I was embarrassed by that.
I didn't tell many people about it.
But 16 years later, I became an atheist because I thought it was a bad pizza.
I had a bad pizza.
That was just weird.
But I couldn't get it out of my mind.
And so 16 years later, as an atheist, my wife dragged me to a church.
And I'm sitting in the church and I hear the gospel for the first time.
It's not how good we try to behave that opens the door of heaven.
It is a free gift of God's grace that we need to receive in repentance and faith.