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Well, God is such a good God! I..m so glad that one day Jesus got a hold of my life back in 1985. Prior to that I ran from God. I was raised a preachers kid and didn..t want anything to do with the church, but in 85 I said okay God if you use what is left of this life I..ll just give it to you and Jesus got a hold of my life and he won..t let me go.
What I see through Circuit Riders is a ministry that is going into the fields and bringing the lost in. The Bible tells us to go into the highways and the hedges and compel them to come in. To often, we as Christians immerse ourselves in the church. I know I did. If there was a job to be done, I did it. I wanted to serve God like I served the Devil, with both hands and all of my being. I felt I owed a debt, I know that it was all covered by his grace. But like Paul, I no longer belonged to myself I had been bought for a price. I belonged to Jesus.
I had been serving God for 18 years and didn..t own a bike, wouldn..t ride one. I thought that was the old life. Some people believe their is circumstance in the kingdom of God, no he had a plan. I was sitting at home one night reading a sales paper when I saw this motorcycle. I told my wife I think I..ll go look at that bike and she said, ..You wouldn..t ride it... I went down Saturday morning and bought the thing. I was scared to ride it, I hadn..t rode in 18 years, so I had the boy load it up on my trailer so I could get it out in the country where no one would see me drop it.
Two weeks later I was in Orange Texas and went into a motorcycle shop and was looking at bikes because when you get the bug your bit, not only do you want every kind of bike ever made, but you..re looking at everyone you see. And a fellow walked up to me and don..t take me wrong when I say this. My 18 years in the church I was clean shaven, my hair was cut and I were 3 piece suits. I was holy. I didn..t know Christians could be real, but anyway this old boy walked up to me that looked kind of like I do now, kind of grungy, but he was comfortable and he didn..t have much problem deciding what to wear to church. You know, I go to the closet and which pair of jeans and which black t-shirt am I going to wear today. He spoke to me and said that..s a good looking bike isn..t it and I turned and looked at him and I thought he was an outlaw and I turned my back on him. I didn..t want to fellowship with nothing like that. I went outside and was looking at another bike and he came up again. You know what he was, he was led by the Spirit of God. He walked up beside me and said that..s a good looking bike too and I turned and saw he had a Circuit Rider patch on his vest and saw it said Riding For Jesus and I said wait a minute I do want to talk to you. I didn..t know there was a Christian motorcycle ministry in the world, that..s how sheltered I had made myself. God didn..t put me in that box, I did. A good little Christian doesn..t associate with any of those people out there. We take that to the extreme, come out from them and be ye separate. I found out when the next meeting was I joined and haven..t looked back because in the first 3 months with Circuit Riders I saw more souls saved than in 18 years of ministry in the church house. Why is that? The church isn..t the habitat of the lost. Its where the disciples meet to grow in the Lord and build up strength to go back into the world on Monday and witness.
As a preacher I wasn..t going to set back. In no time they had me in the pulpit and wherever they could put me. When you..re called, you..re called. I began to be sent out to minister for Circuit Riders preaching here and there. Riding home one Sunday night I said to God ..I..m having to much fun doing what I..m doing, am I what I want or is this what you want me to do?.. He spoke to me in my spirit and he said ..You spent 40 years running from me, living for the Devil and learning his ways and the outlaws ways. You went to the dredges of sin. I didn..t send you there, but you went there. Then I planted you in the church and you spent 18 years in the church and now I have sent you back to where you need to be. You are right where I called you, for such a time as this I prepared you... And that..s what we do, we go minister to those that will never come through the church doors and you can..t reach. That what I..m about, going out and winning the lost.
