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jwm3
December 24th, 2007, 05:46 PM
The year was 2003.

Mrs. Doc, the heathens, and I were members of First Baptist Church Atlanta and attended the Lord's Candlelight Supper service before Christmas.

Dr. Stanley had been out of the pullpit for several months following complications from surgery.

We sang our songs and then the Worship Center went black to start the lighting of the first candle. When the lit candle was raised, the face of Dr. Stanley glowed in the candlelight.

He could barely speak, but in 10 short minutes by the light of one candle, he delivered the entire Gospel. Then he lit candles in the front row and as one candle after another was lit, soon the entire room was illuminated by the glow of thousands of candles.

It was one of the most moving church experiences of my life.

Merry Christmas.
Flowergirl
December 24th, 2007, 05:59 PM
How blessed you were to have been there.

I am glad you are here!
eyescene
December 24th, 2007, 07:30 PM
Amen!!! I would love to meet both Dr Stanley and James Dobson! I would love to be in their presents and learn. Thanks for sharing that...ummm Doc?
Queen Mother
December 24th, 2007, 11:19 PM
Doc, as I read your post, I was imagining what that must have been like. To sit in the large FBC Atlanta sanctuary completely darkened with one lone candle and the voice of one man speaking about the birth of Jesus. How solemn and reverent and magnificent! I can see how it was an experience that you'll never forget.
jwm3
December 25th, 2007, 01:06 AM
Doc, as I read your post, I was imagining what that must have been like. To sit in the large FBC Atlanta sanctuary completely darkened with one lone candle and the voice of one man speaking about the birth of Jesus. How solemn and reverent and magnificent! I can see how it was an experience that you'll never forget.

That night was also the first time the little heathen sat through an entire "big church" service. She was very excited.

We really miss that church. Once you've been a part of a congregation totally under the leadership of God's Spirit, nothing else will quite do. My eldest heathen was saved in that Worship Center and the little heathen danced in the pullpit after church one Sunday, which is still why she is the only member of the Doc family Dr. Stanley remembers by name. :)
pooker
December 25th, 2007, 01:33 AM
That was sweet merry christmas!
eyescene
December 25th, 2007, 07:21 PM
I totally understand that Doc...been there, wish I was there.