Emphasis Preaching Journal

Clarence Jordan, the founder of the world renowned KOINONIA, a community in Georgia, is said to have come to faith through an experience with the hymn "Love Lifted Me." He was deeply moved as a man a few rows ahead of him in church one Sunday sang that hymn with exuberant feeling. That night he couldn't sleep. He wanted faith like the man had singing that hymn. As he lay awake, he heard an awful sound coming from the small jail down the street in the town. He went outside to see what it was. The same man who had sung with vigor and depth was beating a prisoner in the jail.