When I was Seven years old, I asked my dad to walk me through being saved in the parking lot of a Piggly Wiggly. My father was a bi-vocational pastor. He was happy to lead me down the plan of salvation. As a preacher’s kid, I began to see that many people in church were just like the people of the world. People who my dad loved would turn on him.
As I got into high school I had decided to experiment with as much as I could while still maintaining a close walk with Christ. I was betrayed by a girl that I thought was a Christian. From then on I had no respect for most people, especially church members. I thought I was empathizing with Christ about His church.
I began to rebel from the church. I didn’t think it was from my parents or God. The strange part to most people is that through all this time of rebellion, I still loved the Lord. I would go to church and praise with sincere adoration. I went to church camp every year. I sang in youth choir, I was in all the musicals, I knew my Bible, and I even would witness to people. At church camp every year God would draw me close to Him. I would feel guilty and stop my wickedness for a few months. There was one year that I distinctly heard the call to the ministry of evangelism. I did not want any part of that. I had seen what my dad went through and how it hurt him and his family. Every time I would get close to Christ, He would tell me to preach. I couldn’t stand the idea of helping the people of the church. The one thing I did love in high school was drama. It was a talent that even then I recognized was from God.
When I was 21, I met a girl who was soon to be put in prison. She needed to show that she had made a better life for herself. I was lonely and searching for something other than what I had. After knowing her for four months we were married. She ended up in prison after all. We realized that we were never supposed to be married. The one Biblical reason for divorce happened and we got the divorce. I joined the Marine Corps and they taught me to discipline myself.
I realized I needed God to fix the mess of my life. This time I truly surrendered to Him. I rededicated my life and surrendered to the ministry. That week I began dating my wife. Rustie is the best thing, besides God, that has ever happened to me. Where others see failure, she sees experience.
God has put a burning in my heart to spread the good news of Christ to the lost. Ironically my past, especially the divorce, has made it difficult to be active in ministry. God gave me the direction to seek out Christian film opportunities. My dad was friends with a guy that knew someone whose wife was into that. I talked to Tammy Lane for the first time and asked to sit with her and tell her the script ideas God had laid on my heart. She agreed, and about a year later she asked me to work with her.
I know God has great things planned for us all. I hope more than anything that we can share the gospel with those that Christ would have come to the knowledge of Him.
Christopher Inman
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