One thing sudden occurred at a roofing conference in early January. Scores of women and men enthusiastic about their commerce gathered collectively to forge enterprise connections, achieve business insights, and sharpen their expertise. But, ministry leaders inform CBN Information that within the final moments of the convention, greater than 200 responded to a Gospel presentation and dozens have been baptized.
RoofCon is named the “#1 roof convention” within the nation and headlines audio system reminiscent of Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson, in keeping with its web site. Nonetheless, founder Hunter Ballew needed to supply the women and men attending the occasion in Oklahoma Metropolis, OK, greater than a brand new set of expertise so as to add to their device bag.
“[Hunter] contacted me within the fall and mentioned, ‘I would love to fulfill you. I’ve actually been impressed by the Holy Spirit that I [need] to make use of my roofing conference as a platform to achieve folks with the Gospel,'” Evangelist Clayton King advised CBN Information.
King is the pastor and founding father of Crossroads Camp in Anderson, South Carolina. For almost 40 years, King has traveled the nation presenting the Gospel in a transparent strategy to the younger and the outdated. When Ballew invited him to talk earlier than the group of roofers, he jumped on the invitation.
King mentioned God put it on his coronary heart to baptize those that responded to the Gospel message immediately after the convention.
“I mentioned, what would you concentrate on having a baptism there. And he mentioned, ‘Man I used to be pondering the identical precise factor. In order that they went to Tractor Provide and purchased some horse troughs, crammed them up with water within the conference on the conference flooring.”
And God did the remaining.
In response to King, the session was not obligatory, however many confirmed up. He felt that the Holy Spirit had a selected message to share with this group of roofers.
“What I actually sensed the Holy Spirit directing me [was] to share the simplicity of the Gospel and the way an individual can really know that they’re born once more,” he advised CBN Information.
“They got here, and it was only a actually particular transfer [of] the Holy Spirit,” King added.
Greater than 200 women and men responded to the Gospel, and dozens have been instantly baptized.
“I am all the time amazed once I see one particular person or 1,000 folks reply to the Gospel,” Clayton shared, “however on the identical time I am by no means actually shocked on the energy of the Gospel to attract folks to salvation.
He added, “I knew the form of religion that Hunter and his staff had going into the occasion [and] I used to be simply actually praying and believing that God would honor their religion and that they might see a harvest, they usually did.”
Video footage and photographs posted to social media present the highly effective transformation that happened.
King shared in a put up that he believes an awakening is going down.
He advised CBN Information extra about what is occurring outdoors the 4 partitions of the Church.
“Awakening, for me, once I consider it categorically, is when misplaced persons are listening to the Gospel and responding,” he defined. “I do consider once you look globally proper now and once you look domestically in america, I believe we’re seeing an awakening.”
King pointed to current statistics, reminiscent of the rise in Bible gross sales, and research revealing that extra GenZers and males are attending church, as proof that the Spirit of God is shifting.
“I consider secularism has promised that means and objective, and it is failed,” he mentioned. “I consider that secularism has promised a world and a tradition devoid of faith, devoid of conventional values, and stripped of its Christianity as a greater place to stay… however now I believe collectively, we now have seen and particularly males have seen that is a lie.”
“We’d like morality. We’d like religion. We’d like household. We’d like values. And if there isn’t a God, then we do not have a foundation for any perception, for any worth system,” he continued, including, “I believe that there’s a starvation now for religious issues and that starvation is being met by the Gospel.
King, who over the course of his ministry has seen tons of of altars crammed with folks crying out to be modified by God, says we’re on the precipice of a fantastic transfer.
“What I am seeing now’s an awakening and that is why I do use that phrase, however I do not suppose any of us know what that awakening is gonna appear to be,” he defined. “We have seen Nice Awakenings in American historical past and in world historical past earlier than, however every one has regarded completely different and we do not know what this one’s gonna appear to be. In the end, I do consider we’re on the entrance finish of it.”
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