Doug Van Pelt

I'm not alone in the press room

As I sit here, to my left is a radio dj, who is interviewing Dennis Jernigan. Jernigan has written a lot of great worship songs. Like love songs for God, they are sweeping, deep, and beautiful. It was cool to hear his story. He was a basketball player, I guess, in high school and judged his performance or value on his success or failure on the court. He got involved on the periphery of Christianity, so to speak, and confided in someone that he was struggling with homosexuality. His sponsor in this struggle made a sexual advance on him and he went home to kill himself that night. Somehow, the attempt wasn't fulfilled and he found his way much later to a 2nd Chapter of Acts concert, where he got in early with a tape recorder to get his own 3-album live set. "Little did I know I was going to record my own deliverance." Annie Herring had a prophecy that someone was really struggling with something they couldn't tell anyone else about. She encouraged him to give his addictions and his struggles to God like a Christmas present, and expect to receive from God what he needed, like a standard Christmas gift exchange. He handed over his struggle to God and was set free. It was cool and interesting to hear such a personal story as an "eavesdropper" sitting next to those guys.

I wonder if thousands of listeners on that station will feel like eavesdroppers when they hear that interview on the radio...