Interview March 7, 2012: My first encounter with Jesus
Omar Soto(Audio: Español)
- Omar Soto: Since this whole series is based on the person of Jesus, I want to ask you, how was your personal experience, of that day, of that moment, when you decided to give your life to the Lord Jesus, what did you feel? What happened to you, how was that meeting?
- Greg Bishop: Well, at 15 years old, I decided that Jesus was really cool. I decided that Jesus was cool. And you know how, I was listening, I was listening to music called Jesus Christ Superstar (translate: I was listening to a song called Jesus Christ Superstar, Jesus Christ the Superstar). That I don't recommend it, theology is terrible in that matter, I don't recommend it, and for me Jesus was really cool, yeah, I'm going to become spiritual, I'm going to be a spiritual person, I'm going to think that Jesus is cool , and I asked a Christian friend to do a painting for me, he was a Christian friend dedicated to the Lord, and an artist, and I asked him if he could do me a special painting, with three great figures from history, one, Martin Luther King, no, that man of peace and reconciliation between the races, and the other character, Mahatma Ghandi, who represented non-violence, and put my cool friend Jesus next to him, next to Martin Luther King and Mahatma Ghandi , and for some reason, my Christian friend didn't want to. My christian friend had a problem with that, and he said Jesus was not Mahatma Ghandi, but I said but how can it be, Jesus represented peace and was a teacher of goodness, and my friend said Gregory, either Jesus is God or not he is nothing, he is not a prophet of peace, he is not merely a teacher, Jesus is the Son of God or he is nothing.