John Armstrong

My name is John Armstrong.  I live in Chicago, Illinois.  My spiritual journey took a decisive and memorable turn one Sunday morning.

It was an ordinary Sunday morning worship service.  We were reciting the words of the Apostle’s Creed, words I had said hundreds of times before. As an adjunct professor of evangelism at Wheaton College, I knew the words.  As an evangelical (Reformed) Protestant, I believed them.  But I had never been particularly moved by them.  They were just words recited in a service.

But on this Sunday things unfolded very differently.  As I said the creedal words, “I believe in the holy catholic church,” something stopped me.  At that moment, the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart:  “Do you really believe these words?  If you believe them, then why don’t you act like it?”

Source: Wittenberg 2017  -  "John's Story", from the Wittenberg 2017 (US) website
http://www.wittenberg2017.us/johns-story.html