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This is why I am a Christian.  I hope you will consider my testimony for a second, think about your own life and be honest with God about who you are and what you really need in life.  Everyone’s story / path in life is different, but what remains constant is the longing / desire within all of us for something greater than ourselves.  Have you recognized that desire yet?  Have you answered that yearning / longing for something / anything to make sense?  I have found that sense of freedom / security in the Person of Jesus Christ.  In him is the fullness of wisdom, I know if you are open He can show to you as well.  Read on…

The Testimony of Justin Driscoll

Aren’t praying mothers the best thing in the world? I should know; I had one!  My mom was a single parent that raised identical twin boys.  Since money and patience always seemed to be running thin she had no other choice but to pray that God would not only work out her present need but that He would work a wonder in her two boys.  As I write this today I can gratefully say He has!

I am originally from Oil City Pennsylvania where I was raised in a small, Lutheran church. We were in church nearly every Sunday.  We attended Sunday school before service and helped out in any other area of the church that needed assistance.  As custom would have it we were forced to attend confirmation classes to become a “member” of the church and take communion for the first time.  My attitude at the time was not very favorable to church and reading the Bible.  At 15 I was much more interested in playing sports and video games.  However, my mother pressed on in the natural and in her prayer life that she would not lose her two boys to the wayward life of the world.

God answered her prayers in 1999 when my new friend at college invited me to a small church outside of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania for a Sunday morning service.  It was there for the first time that I ever remember hearing the Word preached with such passion and conviction.  I felt emotions that I never felt at the church I grew up in.  Maybe they weren’t preaching or maybe I wasn’t listening.  At this service in the fall of 1999 I answered the call to receive Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.  From that point on my life has never been the same!

Immediately I began to have a desire to study, preach and teach the Word of God.  I was fortunate enough to attend Robert Morris University where a pastor that has a heart for college students led the campus ministry Chi Alpha.  After I accepted the Lord I began to get plugged into Chi Alpha and the multiple Bible studies that were taking place throughout the week.  I was attending Bible studies Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  Every chance I had at a Bible study I took it!

In 2002 I was filled with the Holy Spirit during a Chi Alpha meeting.  Ironically enough I was asked to speak on the Baptism in the Holy Spirit that night even though I had not been filled yet.  My message for the night focused on the benefits of being filled with the Spirit and what the Scripture has to say about this topic.  After the message we prayed and worshiped the Lord for about an hour when the Spirit so filled me that it was nearly overwhelming.  I spoke in other tongues just like in the book of Acts!  Again, I never experienced anything like this before in my life.  What a work God was doing in my life.
Now, six years later, God has continued to do wonderful things in my life and now my families life.  My wife and I have been working for our local church and to be mentored by our pastor Wayne Jackson at First Assembly in Coraopolis.  We started out teaching Sunday school, then junior high youth pastors, and now senior high youth pastors.  I have led two missions’ trips and been on five, both stateside and overseas.  We have seen countless young people come through our ministry and have seen their lives changes by the Risen Savior Jesus Christ.  All we can do is love them and point them in the Way.  The Holy Spirit does the rest.