Well, I've got a special treat
today because our guest is actually a very dear friend of mine, and
I have to let you in on a little secret. I did not know who the
guest was going to be today. and found out it's my dear friend,
Pastor Ken Clark, from the Grace Center of Pennsylvania. I am so thrilled and honored
to be here today, and that God in His providence brought us
together in this way, and neither of us actually knew that we were
going to be meeting here today. And yet we'll meet here and talk
about the men of grace, these awesome, anointed men who sing
and praise God and the incredible story of where they came from.
And I want to talk about the obvious, and I know you probably
get teased about this, but your name, Ken Clark, Clark Kent backwards,
I mean, is the name of Superman. That's true, and in every way
I am opposite from Superman. Except you have been created
to be a Superman in the Lord Jesus Christ. I can do all things
through Christ that strengthen us. That makes you super. I want
to talk a bit about the Grace Centers of Hope. But first of
all, how you came even to be a pastor at a very young age. You were saved. I was saved at
the age of eight years old. And it was a real encounter with
the Lord Jesus Christ. Very early on, I realized my
sinnership. Actually, I think there are some
little adults. I was one of those. At four years
old, I think I had a consciousness that I was a sinner. And the
wonderful truth is that Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners. And as I grew, four years later,
after that encounter of knowing my sinnership, Under great condemnation
for my sin, my dad was witnessing to me, telling me that Jesus
Christ was the Savior and Lord, and that I was simply to trust
Him. And I said to my dad, Actually, he tricked me. He got
me downstairs in the basement of our house to play ping pong. I thought I was going to play
ping pong with him. And he said, son, and as soon
as he said son, I knew we were going to talk about Christ. And
I laid the paddle down and he said, do you realize you're lost
and without God? And we began to talk about it.
And he told me to trust Christ. And I would say things like,
I'm trying, Dad. And he would say, quit trying
and trust Christ. And we prayed actually three
times. He prayed and he asked me to
ask the Lord to save me while he prayed. And I did. The last
time he prayed, he said something like this. Lord, if you can get
more glory out of damning Kent than saving him, thy will be
done. And it was at that point that
I cried out, Oh no! And in a moment, in a twinkling
of an eye, I trusted Christ and the peace and joy of God flooded
my soul eight years of it.