Commitment to God often comes in difficult circumstances. When death seemed so close to Delos Miles in a bunker in North Korea, he began to pray. As he lay on the ground, a Chinese soldier put a rifle to his head. Miles prayed something like this: “Lord, if you are all-powerful like I’ve always heard you are, you can bring me out of here alive. If you will save my life, I’ll do anything you want me to do.”<\/p>\n
The soldier fired. Instead of going through Delos’ head, the bullet went down across the right side of his head.<\/p>\n
After 18 hours in that bunker pretending to be dead and 3 days and nights searching, Delos made it back to the First Marine Division. He now serves as Professor of Evangelism at Southeastern Bapist Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n
– Rodney Navey, Proclaim<\/p>\n
For complete story see Delos Miles, Introduction to Evangelism (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1983) 171-173<\/p>\n
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