When I was standing out in a public shopping mall after having read a short testimony stuck
on a painted door (along with others) a man named, Bob, came over to me, and I asked him,
"Is this true?"
After saying yes, Bob opened up his rather battered dog-eared KJV Bible and read out the scriptures
to me - starting with John 3 he took me through the later chapters of John where Jesus preaches the
sending of the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, the holy Ghost.
And then the pièce de résistance Mark 16:15-20 this blew me away.
He went on through all the pertinent verses in Acts and then read through the epistles.
For the first time in my life the scriptures came of the pages and entered my heart. I was troubled
by what I had heard and went home asking myself "what if this is all true?"
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto me.
John 6:44-45
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him
of my Father.
John 6:65
37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let
him come unto me, and drink.
38 He that believes on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
39 (But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
John 7:37-39
And yes I obeyed the scriptures and got water baptized by full immersion, and one month later I was
baptized in the Holy Spirit and spoke out in a new tongue according to scripture.
Then I became born from above or born again in the vernacular.