JESUS AND THE MAN BORN BLIND (6)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: John 9:1-41
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Title: Jesus and the Man Born Blind (6)
Series: Divine Encounter
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: John 9:1-41
The year was 2001. My friend, Mark Lanier and I taught a Bible study class together at Champion Forest Baptist Church. Mark knew that I was having some trouble with my eyes. I had been wearing contacts every day since I was in 10th grade. My eyes had gotten so bad I couldn't even read the E on the eye chart. My distance vision was horrible, and so I wore contacts. And they did pretty well, but right around 2000, 2001 I started to get more and more infections in my eyes, and I had to take the contacts out for stretches of time and wear glasses, and I wasn't really a glasses person. And so, Mark came up to me one day. He said, "Jeff, I want to do something for you." I said, "What is that?" He said, "I want to pay for you to get LASIK surgery." I said, "Wow!" He said, "I had it done by this doctor in Houston," William Slade I think was his first name, Dr. Slade. He said, "He's one of the best at LASIK surgery, and so Becky and I want to pay for you to do that." It was about five thousand dollars. You know, they had some of the low budget guys that were like advertising in the paper at that time - buy one, get one free - I didn't want to go to that guy. You know, if the first one doesn't work, you get half off the second one. Forget it! You only have two eyes. And so Mark was very gracious, so I set it up through an optometrist friend of mine, Glenn Ellisor. And the day came. And some of you have had LASIK surgery, you know what that's like, so you're a little nervous. You go in there and you don't want them to mess up anything. And so, they're doing all the preliminary stuff. And they said to me, "Okay, do you want some valium?" "Valium? Why would I want that? I don't want that." He said, "Well, some people want valium." I don't need that. That's for losers. It's not really, but that's what I was thinking to myself, I don't need that. ...
Series: Divine Encounter
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: John 9:1-41
The year was 2001. My friend, Mark Lanier and I taught a Bible study class together at Champion Forest Baptist Church. Mark knew that I was having some trouble with my eyes. I had been wearing contacts every day since I was in 10th grade. My eyes had gotten so bad I couldn't even read the E on the eye chart. My distance vision was horrible, and so I wore contacts. And they did pretty well, but right around 2000, 2001 I started to get more and more infections in my eyes, and I had to take the contacts out for stretches of time and wear glasses, and I wasn't really a glasses person. And so, Mark came up to me one day. He said, "Jeff, I want to do something for you." I said, "What is that?" He said, "I want to pay for you to get LASIK surgery." I said, "Wow!" He said, "I had it done by this doctor in Houston," William Slade I think was his first name, Dr. Slade. He said, "He's one of the best at LASIK surgery, and so Becky and I want to pay for you to do that." It was about five thousand dollars. You know, they had some of the low budget guys that were like advertising in the paper at that time - buy one, get one free - I didn't want to go to that guy. You know, if the first one doesn't work, you get half off the second one. Forget it! You only have two eyes. And so Mark was very gracious, so I set it up through an optometrist friend of mine, Glenn Ellisor. And the day came. And some of you have had LASIK surgery, you know what that's like, so you're a little nervous. You go in there and you don't want them to mess up anything. And so, they're doing all the preliminary stuff. And they said to me, "Okay, do you want some valium?" "Valium? Why would I want that? I don't want that." He said, "Well, some people want valium." I don't need that. That's for losers. It's not really, but that's what I was thinking to myself, I don't need that. ...
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