Together, Bela and Christina drank, partied and used drugs. Then one day in November 1990, Christina was digging through Bela’s closet when she found a box of KCM books and tapes. She pulled out one book and read it from cover to cover. In the back, she found a prayer of salvation—and prayed it.
When Bela came home, he took one look at Christina and knew something had happened. She…glowed.
“Guess what happened to me?” Christina asked.
“I know exactly what happened to you.”
“What?”
“You’ve been born again.”
“How did you know?”
“Because I’m a Christian.”
“What? If you’re a Christian, why do you live the way you do?”
“I’m backslidden.”
“What does that mean?”
“It’s hard to explain. I’m a Christian, but I slid back to my old way of life.”
“Oh,” Christina said, pondering his words.
She brightened and said, “Well if you slid back, why don’t you just slide forward?”
Changing Direction
Slide forward? Who ever heard of such a thing?
Bela almost laughed, but he caught himself. He hated the way he was living. Why couldn’t he do what she said? Just…slide forward.
The more he thought about it the better it sounded. It had been easy to backslide. Could it be just as easy to slide forward?
Christina had prayed the sinner’s prayer. All he needed to do was repent, and slide forward.
“I got off drugs again, but twice I messed up and got high,” Bela admits. “Then one day Christina said, ‘There’s something on you. It’s standing right over you.’ I asked her to take authority over it in Jesus’ Name and make it go. She did, and I’ve been sober now for 23 years.”
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