This is the sign that was in front of our church in preparation for last Sunday.
Every year our church has Rev. John Bishop preach. He is a very extraordinary man. In October of 1995 he had aseptic meningitis which robbed him of all his memory. He has had to learn everything and in his words "My Donna had teach me how eat, how tie shoe, and how kiss". He told us last year that with his memory being erased he has problems with linking verbs and such. So when he preaches he will talk and we have to fill in the words that he misses. He now goes around preaching about the goodness of God. He has a ministry with is call "God is so good". His website is http://www.godissogood.net
One time (he said) a man came up to him and told him that he shouldn't thank God for this but be mad at God for putting that aseptic meningitis into him. Rev. John Bishop told that man that when he gets to heaven he will ask God not why did He do it but which hand did He use to put the illness in him. Then he would take that hand and kiss it.
He has more problems that either you or I could ever imagine having but he is happy to do the work of the Master with the talents that He has given him.
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Our family absolutely adores John Bishop!!!! Our kids have gone to the camp he started, Triple S Camp in Rosebud, Arkansas, for years and years with our sending church in Ft. Worth, Texas. I've never met a more humble preacher than Bro. Bishop!
too weird...I just read Job 2:1-12 this morning and it talked about the same sort of thing...not the mind erasing...but the part where God allows things in our life...good and bad. Sounds like an extraordinary guy.
Kevin and I had the privelege of hearing him speak twice while we were at North Valley Baptist Church, in Santa Clara. His ministry is remarkable.
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