Youth Pastor Found Dead in Ga - This is very sad

[KBevangelist]

Pray for this family

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/ ... ab_newstab

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[Poimen]

Wow, that is sad. How tragic, and just for doing good.

That's all too close for comfort. Once when I was abut 19 I picked up a guy on a back road with an arm load of groceries, and gave him a ride. I had the strongest sense to NOT stop, but I turned around and went back anyhow, and offered the guy a ride. He had upset the people he was riding with and they put him out.

I talked with him about the Lord, and life in general, as I carried him home (about 4 miles from where I picked him up). Everything was fine until I dropped him off. Suddenly his whole demeanor and even his voice changed. He spotted the people that dropped him off (they were next door neighbors). He thanked me and hastly exited the car, dropped the grocieries on the ground, and ran over and started beating the guy.

I was in total shock. There were several people there, and after thinking about it I decided to leave. But then as I was pulling away I wipped back around and thought maybe I should try to help or least be a credible witness. I called the police and pulled back up. As I exited the car I saw the guy I gave a ride to plunge a sharp object (probably a knife) into the victim again and again all over.

The victim's young wife ran to pleade for him and the guy slashed her face from one temple down across the nose to her other cheek. He literal cut her face open from side to side. As she cried in hysteria, her wounded husband tried to console her while he grew pale and finally slumped to the ground, amidst the sound of blood, literally pouring in a thick stream to the earth below, puddling around him.

The the perp ran off into his house and out the back door into the woods.

Long story short, the guy and his wife survived, but were severley scarred. The perp got caught and I had to go to a court hearing and testify. It wound up having to go to grand jury and trial. I was never recalled as my testimony was broken in relation to the sequence of events and was inconclusive.

Turns out the guy had just recently been released from prison for murder!

I have since taken more heed to consider the Spirit's guidance in such matters, and as a matter of practice I am still willing to help anyone, but I am much more skeptical and cautious than previous to that encounter.

It could have been me found dead, and my car gone.

My comfort for this brother and His family is that He will be rewarded accordingly for his good deeds by our Lord.

[MacUser]

Zowie Chris... sorry about that my brother.

Uggghh.

[crispfin]

That's very sad. I'm praying for his family.

[jessicacook]

It is very sad. Praying here.

[free]

What did they gain or accomplish by killing this man? Everyone may not agree but I hope "fry" (or whatever Georgia does)!!

[Jennifer Smith]

Wow, that is sad. How tragic, and just for doing good.

That's all too close for comfort. Once when I was abut 19 I picked up a guy on a back road with an arm load of groceries, and gave him a ride. I had the strongest sense to NOT stop, but I turned around and went back anyhow, and offered the guy a ride. He had upset the people he was riding with and they put him out.

I talked with him about the Lord, and life in general, as I carried him home (about 4 miles from where I picked him up). Everything was fine until I dropped him off. Suddenly his whole demeanor and even his voice changed. He spotted the people that dropped him off (they were next door neighbors). He thanked me and hastly exited the car, dropped the grocieries on the ground, and ran over and started beating the guy.

I was in total shock. There were several people there, and after thinking about it I decided to leave. But then as I was pulling away I wipped back around and thought maybe I should try to help or least be a credible witness. I called the police and pulled back up. As I exited the car I saw the guy I gave a ride to plunge a sharp object (probably a knife) into the victim again and again all over.

The victim's young wife ran to pleade for him and the guy slashed her face from one temple down across the nose to her other cheek. He literal cut her face open from side to side. As she cried in hysteria, her wounded husband tried to console her while he grew pale and finally slumped to the ground, amidst the sound of blood, literally pouring in a thick stream to the earth below, puddling around him.

The the perp ran off into his house and out the back door into the woods.

Long story short, the guy and his wife survived, but were severley scarred. The perp got caught and I had to go to a court hearing and testify. It wound up having to go to grand jury and trial. I was never recalled as my testimony was broken in relation to the sequence of events and was inconclusive.

Turns out the guy had just recently been released from prison for murder!

I have since taken more heed to consider the Spirit's guidance in such matters, and as a matter of practice I am still willing to help anyone, but I am much more skeptical and cautious than previous to that encounter.

It could have been me found dead, and my car gone.

My comfort for this brother and His family is that He will be rewarded accordingly for his good deeds by our Lord.

Poimen, thank you for sharing that, I'm sure that had a big impact on your life. I have had a couple of instances of similar experiences when the Spirit was speaking to me and I questioned or disregarded it perhaps as from the Lord, but then later realized what God was trying to get across to me and realized it was pretty clear or emphatic. Those lessons are painful but important. We had a sermon Sunday about seasons in which there is little or no revelation from God- a spiritual famine if you will, and how that is a bad thing... because without knowledge or vision, God's people perish. It was a powerful sermon, and I wrote down some of the scriptures to reflect on later. I know what you are talking about all too well, but I'm thankful God teaches me to listen "like one being taught" and I'm trying to remember and learn to be a better listener.