Sunday's Comin' To Illustrate
January 1, 2003
How Condi Came Back
President Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice is a preacher's kid. She grew up in church. But in her mid-20s, she found she had drifted from her Christian faith.
Rice told this story at a Sunday school class at National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. in August 2002:
Although I never doubted the existence of God, I think like all people I've had some ups and downs in my faith. When I first moved to California in 1981 to join the faculty at Stanford, there were a lot of years when I was not attending church regularly … I was a specialist in international politics, so I was always traveling abroad.
[One] Sunday morning, I went to Menlo Park Presbyterian Church [in Palo Alto]. The minister that Sunday morning gave a sermon I will never quite forget. It was about the Prodigal Son from the point of view of the elder son.
It set the elder son up not as somebody who had done all the right things but as somebody who had become so self-satisfied; a parable about self-satisfaction and complacency in faith, that people who didn't somehow expect themselves to need to be born again can be complacent.
I started to think of myself as that elder son who had never doubted the existence of God but wasn't really walking in faith in an active way anymore.
I started to become more active with the church, to go to Bible study, and to have a more active prayer life. It was a very important turning point in my life.
Luke 15:11-32; Hebrews 10:24-25
Church Attendance, Preaching, Renewal
Movie clips to show or tell
Signs
Rated PG-13
(Touchstone, 2002)
Scene begins at 00:41:00
Length: 2.5 minutes
Hope, Fear, Sovereignty of God
Hebrews 11:6; Romans 8:31-39
Set-up: The film begins with the mysterious appearance of large symbols ...
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