Amazing Grace
“Thirty minutes later, I heard a knock on the door,” Len recalls. “It was Cathy. I could tell something had happened as soon as I saw her. She had tears in her eyes, but her face was glowing. Her countenance was totally different.”
“I found what we’ve been looking for,” Cathy announced. “Jesus!”
“Where did you find Jesus?”
“At Barney’s Hamburger Stand,” Cathy said, grinning.
The following week, Len dreamed that he was back in the Appalachians. A man, dirty, filthy and dressed in rags, sat on the porch of one of the mountain homes. Looking at Len, he lifted a violin to his shoulder and played “Amazing Grace.”
Len woke from the dream crying, the haunting strains echoing in his heart.
“That morning,” Len says, “Cathy called and asked me to go with her to a bookstore. It was a Christian bookstore. While Cathy browsed, the owner introduced me to Father Tom Turnbull, a charismatic Episcopal priest. The dream was still bothering me and for some reason, I told him about it.”
“I can tell you the interpretation to your dream,” Father Tom said. “The man on the porch was Jesus. The rags and filth He wore were your sin that He took on Himself. He played ‘Amazing Grace’ to show you the depth of His love.”
On Oct. 16, 1971, in the back room of a bookstore, Len Mink died, but not from a gunshot. He was pierced through the heart with the love of God.
He gave his life to Jesus.
Jesus took it and filled the emptiness in it with Himself. He gave Len Mink a new life to live and a new song to sing.
“I walked out of that bookstore and saw a drunk lying in the street,” Len recalls. “I never thought twice, I just knelt down and told him about the amazing grace of Jesus’ love.”
At work, Len and Cathy became known as the God Squad. They told everyone about Jesus. After work, with Len still in stage makeup, they rushed to jails and halfway houses to spread the good news. Hundreds of people accepted Jesus. Churches of every denomination invited them to share their story.
The Devil Orders a Hit
The devil hated it...and he moved quickly to stop it.
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