Emphasis Preaching Journal

Gert Behanna, the author of The Late Liz, tells about a daughter of a New York millionaire who had too much money, too much to drink, and too many men. After thirty hung-over years as an alcoholic, she was confronted by God with his forgiving love in Jesus Christ. Telling of this experience that changed her life, she says, "When I rose from my knees a transformed and newly born Christian I suddenly realized that I who had never loved anyone in all the world was now, in Christ, the sister to every man, woman, and child who had ever lived."