♪ Es sinn zween weg in dieser zeit ♪ ♪ Der ein ist schmall der ander weit...♪ >> Joseph Graber: We call them the Amish Shunning modern advancements, they drive horses and buggies and live without electricity. Where do they come from? Are they a culture? A Religion? What made them who they are? This film series explores the inner workings of the Amish Church as told by some of their own who no longer wear black hats and bonnets. For 300 years the Amish have been known as the 'silent in the land' Now a growing number of them are breaking the silence. [music] >> Joseph Graber: Hi, my name is Joseph Graber. I'm your host for this film series. For the first 14 years of my life I grew up Old Order Amish. I know what it's like living without electricity and going everywhere with horses and buggies. When I set out to create this film project I wanted to tell my parents' story and to share my perspective on this unique culture. And that is what we've done in the previous episodes. But my parents' story and my Amish history have had a huge impact on my life. And so in this episode I want to take a moment to look at my journey. In many ways my story begins here in the West Kootenai Valley in northwestern Montana In the early 1990s my family moved here from Missouri. I came as a little Amish boy excited about life in the mountains. My family lived here in this house. It was here that I watched my father weather one of the worst storms of his life. >> Lester Graber: We decided to follow Jesus. You know? That's what I decided. It doesn't matter anymore, I mean I will follow Jesus in the Amish Church. That's fine. But it will be Jesus. It's not gonna be the cultural thing. I believe that it really came down to the fact that we were aware that we are either serving the Lord or we're serving culture, and tradition. >>Joseph: If my father had not chosen to follow Christ and been excommunicated from the Amish Church, he would still be in the Amish Church today. I would be and Amish man and my sons would be growing up in the Amish culture. But my father did choose to follow Christ and we were excommunicated from the Amish Church. Today I am not a member of the Amish Church. So what legacy can I pass on to my sons? This question started me on a journey. Like many other former Amish, I don't always know what to do with my Amish background. If your heritage has rejected you, is it still your heritage? Through the process of making this film, I did a lot of research and spoke with many people. Some were familiar with the Amish. Others knew my family 20 years ago. But our time in Switzerland was perhaps the most helpful. As I learned more of the history of the Reformation Era, it gave me a new perspective on my own spiritual journey. Many times the disagreeing factions here both called themselves Christians. A really good example of this is Zwingli. he translated the Bible into the language they understood, in fact, had a complete translation before Martin Luther did. And then his students, and the people that were following him used the very Bible that he translated to disagree with him. During the Reformation Era standing for the truth Contra Mundum- against the whole world, became first the ideal as seen in men like Luther when he stood before the council and said, >>Martin Luther: Unless you can convince me by Scripture and not by Popes or Councils who have often contradicted each other. Unless I am so convinced that I am wrong I am bound to my beliefs by the text of the Bible. I cannot, and I will not recant! Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. >> Joseph Graber: Later, defending the truth 'Contra Mundum' became almost an obsession. As each person or group rediscovered a truth they felt almost compelled to separate themselves from everyone else who did not immediately embrace it in the same way. While we were in Switzerland we visited a number of castles that held Anabaptist prisoners during the Reformation Era. The Castle Trachselwald in particular is still playing a part in the relationship between the Anabaptist descendents and the Reformed Church of Switzerland. >> Paul Veraguth: Greetings from Switzerland. I am Paul Veraguth. Pastor of the Reformed Church in the Canton of Bern. I often visit this place, the Castle of Trachselwald. My ancestors were also some of those persecuted Anabaptists who came from this area here where the castle is standing. >> Joseph Graber: When I look at this castle it's exciting to me. I love exploring it. I want to go up every stair and every tower. I want to look into every little room. I want to take pictures of it. I want to explore every nook and cranny of it. But when my ancestors, the Graber family and the rest of the Anabaptists, when they lived here in Switzerland These castles were not necessarily a thing of beauty for them. In fact, for them it was a symbol of terror sitting up on the hillside. They didn't want to come visit a castle. It was a place of gloom. A place of dread. A place where people died for their faith. A place where you were separated from your family for weeks and months, not knowing what was happening. >> Paul Veraguth: When I am here, then I feel actually the cloud of witnesses I have a look to the prison tower from here. I see perfectly the barred windows where they sat in their cells I feel the prayers of these people back there. All the endurance and all the strength. It took faith to grow in this tough, in this hard environment. >> Joseph Graber: Because of the persecution that this castle and others like it represent, the early Graber family moved from here in Switzerland, to what is today France. Where they had more freedom at that time before eventually moving on to America [music] >> Lester Graber: In this valley and throughout this whole area here near Huttwil is where my Graber ancestors lived at one time before they moved to France and eventually America. >> Joseph Graber: According to Ora Graber's History of the Graber Immigrants to America, Peter Graber moved here. In the late 1700s and he built this house, and he built a barn here and began farming here. We are up on a high, it's a beautiful place. [music] >> Joseph Graber: We are getting to the end of the journey here in Switzerland and France and we're about to head home. I'd like to come back. I'd like to spend more time. But I really want my sons to grow up with a better understanding of their heritage. And if at all possible I want to bring them back here to show them these places. But I want us to understand history. And what were the causes and effects that led things to be where they were. In order to better understand the present. But I do feel a lot closer to the history now. I feel closer to the leaders of the Anabaptists that were over here, that were being hunted down and killed. Sitting in that prison in the castle the other day and just sitting their for awhile really made it come real to me. [baby crying] It may have helped that Peter was at the end of himself and was crying. Especially when he saw chains on me, he wanted to get out of there. And so it helped it feel a little more real, what it would be like to be so helpless. [music] >> Paul Veraguth: This is a thought I've always had with me and it turns out I think to be true. If you are imprisoned you develop like a mentality and if you cannot get rid of that, if you cannot be reconciled with the roots of your history and tragedies that took place sometimes you start to imprison yourself, your people. And having been a victim, you then move on to be the one that who makes victims. Or who suppresses others. And this is what I saw that then they do not have stones or shackles they have laws and orders and rules and stuff like this. But exactly the same thing happens. >> Joseph Graber: When Jacob Amman came from the Alsace area down here to the Emmental he was coming here to try to impose his will on other people He wasn't respecting Hans Reist and the other ministers of this area. He was coming to tell them what to do and wanting to use religion to control others and I don't want that. I don't think that is a good part of my heritage. >> Paul Veraguth: By upholding those traditions in such a strict manner they produced a new prison. This is very strange. This was not a prison consisting of rocks or timbers and bars. But it was a spiritual prison. And the people who were kept in there had a hard time to escape. It was almost impossible to get out of this new prison. >> Lester Graber: There's a lot of people caught in the Amish Church that are not there because they want to be there. They are there because their parents were there. Their grandparents were there. They believe it is the right thing to do to be there. and I believe they're misinformed but they think it's the right thing. So a lot of people are caught. >> Joe Keim: Excommunication and Shunning is the fabric that holds the culture together. Take that away and you don't have an Amish culture. It holds it together. It has held it together all these years. >> Joseph Graber: It was so, almost haunting, to see that starting here. Where they had so much freedom, but instead, they didn't want to become like the people they were with so they began making rules. And that was when they made the huge mistake: they thought that uniformity would bring unity. You know from the outside when you see uniformity it looks and sometimes even feels like unity. But it is not unity. It just means that they look the same. So they could still have a lot of disagreement among them. From the days of Jacob Amman until now excommunication and shunning does seem to be a theme of many Amish stories. So when I heard something about a group of Amish going to Switzerland for reconciliation, I went to the Amish community in Libby Montana to learn more. We got to Lloyd Miller's house last night about 4:30. Before we ate supper I interviewed Lloyd outside. >> Lloyd Miller: Well, when we first came we thought we would just have a better Amish community. But we got intercepted by the Holy Spirit in 1995. And that dramatically altered the path that we were on. From 1995 to 2002 I was personally able to go into the Amish Church and bring the message of the Gospel. Freely. The doors were open. And when they shut the doors to us our hearts never turned away from them. So by 2001, 2002, the Amish had pretty much cut ties with us. >> Joseph Graber: Did they officially excommunicate you? >> Lloyd Miller: They did not. There was never an excommunication because we were a sovereign group at that time. I was already the leader, the Bishop. >> Joseph Graber: So they could just disfellowship? >> Lloyd Miller: They just disfellowshipped us. Our heart was never to leave them. >> Joseph Graber: In the last several decades there has been a growing awareness in Switzerland of what happened 500 years ago. As a result of this there was a group of people in Switzerland who were praying and asking God for mercy for their country. And they wanted to ask forgiveness and try to reconcile with the descendents of the Anabaptists that had been driven from Switzerland. >> Lloyd Miller: Soon after the encounter with the Holy Spirit a former Amish Mennonite couple who were part of the leadership of Watchmen for the Nations met us in a conference in Canada. And Watchmen is Canadian based ministry that goes worldwide bringing the Father's heart and nations together. And they certainly brought it to us. And so we were invited up to Canada, we went there in 2001. >> Paul Veraguth: It started with a prayer movement in Canada and some Swiss pastors and also Ben Girod was there as far as I know And they were brought together, and there was a prophet from Egypt working there and he had an impression that something is going on between the old churches of Europe and the the Anabaptists >> Joseph Graber: The delegation from Switzerland was asking, is there anyone with an Anabaptist heritage that we can connect with? >> Lloyd Miller: Are there any Anabaptists in America or Canada that we could connect with because we are finding this information in our libraries about what happened on Swiss soil in the 1500s. >> Joseph Graber: They wanted to pursue reconciliation, but they had one problem. Among the Old Order Amish, descendents of the Anabaptists that they wanted to reconcile with there was no one that would talk with them. Because those who were still Old Order Amish didn't want to talk with outsiders. And those who had left did not want to identify as Amish and represent the Amish. And so the group from Libby Montana was a real answer to prayer. They identified as Amish and they were willing to participate in reconciliation. >> Paul Veraguth: They saw that they are not able to handle their own splittings without going back to the roots and forgiving the people of the State Church. They still have anger bitterness, things like this in their hearts, they will repeat, multiply their own splittings among their own people all the time. So to get healed from this addiction to splitting, to overcome that they have to go back to the place where the first split took place. This is go back to Switzerland. >> Joseph Graber: The group from Switzerland actually sponsored for a group of Amish and Mennonites from America to join them in Switzerland. >> Lloyd Miller: Because they said, we put you out of our country we banished you and we're going to pay your way back. And we're going to apologize nationally for what happened to your fathers. 40 of our group here made the journey over there. >> Paul Veraguth: Ben Girod, the people from Zurich pastors were here, other pastors were here The Governor was here, and they were forgiving. >>Pastor: Wir haben gefehlt. We were wrong. And you are right. >> Ben Girod: I forgive you. >>Translator: Ich euch vergebe. >> Paul Veraguth: This is like a milestone, if that word exists in American? A milestone of church history. And of building one body in the Kingdom of Christ. And then we had following conferences in different places in America. And finally I think it was '07 we had this Open Air. >> Joseph Graber: In Trachselwald Open Air? Yes? >> Paul Veraguth: We had 10,000 attendees during these 3 days. So this was a huge impact. [church singing] [church singing] [church singing] >> Hans Jutzi: Ja, in 2007 there was this TauferJahr(Year of the Anabaptists) It was a good time for us. For example here, in this place where, its historically very important I think. We never could speak with the State Church about this matter before really. uh, perhaps sometimes they tried but it never came a connection. And it was good for us here, for us, for our church it was good. But it was also very good for the State Church to speak together. I think it, is nearer since. since this time. >> Paul Veraguth: Finally it was like a mass movement. Many, many people came. > > Stage Singer: ♪ Today I choose ♪ ♪ to follow You ♪ >> Joseph Graber: The Year of the Anabaptist had a huge impact on all those who were part of it. But on all sides there are people who don't really know what is happening. In 2014 Pastor Paul traveled to the United States to try to connect with one such group the Old Order Amish. >> Paul Veraguth: I was a few weeks in the States just to meet Amish Bishops and to ask them for forgiveness for what the State of Bern was doing to their ancestors. This trip brought me to many Amish in Kentucky and Indiana and Upstate New York and many places. I never got a glass of water in an Amish home. In one case I could enter a home of an Amish people Usually they would come out, talk with me a little bit being, being bewildered >> Joseph Graber: bewildered, yes. >> Paul Veraguth: Bewildered somehow and then say good bye. This was my experience. I was like cast out- >> Joseph Graber: So they would not invite you in? >> Paul Veraguth: Like we did to them, they did to me. >> Joseph Graber: Many Anabaptist descendants, especially among the Amish are so bound up in their new prisons of rules and ordinances and religious control that they are unable to hear the message of forgiveness and to receive it. But for those of us who are able to hear the message of forgiveness and to receive it, there is great freedom and these are exciting times! Today Trachselwald is becoming a symbol of hope again. Because of the many splits that had happened with the Anabaptists, Jacob Amman, Hans Reist the Reformed Church. Today it is all coming back together. Reconciliation has been happening. We are recognizing that now we are various parts of the Body like the hand and a foot. And we are different like that instead of killing each other because we're different. We are now embracing our differences and there is, we are finding some unity in diversity. And so the Castle Trachselwald has become a symbol of reconciliation and hope for the future instead of a symbol of dread and gloom. Why now? Why in the past 10 years has there been some reconciliation? >> Paul Veraguth: Maybe it's again a time of favor God is giving for reconciling. There are reconciliation movements all around. Many places many churches, many denominations are called into this move, and its from the Holy Spirit. Just like Reformation time. This was a big move of the Holy Spirit. And He tries to bring people to the point where they do the first thing we promise God in the Lord's prayer- that we forgive. This is the only thing that we promise Him in this prayer. And with this forgiveness everything can start. And if we stop there nothing can start. This is the point. [praying in German] >> Joseph Graber: When I was growing up I was under the impression that it was the Catholic Church that was persecuting my Anabaptist ancestors. But for the most part, it was actually the Reformed State Church that was persecuting my ancestors. Because both of these churches are still in existence today it can be very difficult for people who share my Anabaptist heritage to forgive them. While on the journey of making this project I learned some things that gave me a different perspective on some aspects of my Anabaptist heritage. One example of this is something that the Catholic Church has done in an attempt to be reconciled with its past. >> Doug Grandon: The sad fact is that we have had to wait until really the Pontificate of John Paul II. In the 1980s, 1990s early 2000s. And his desire was to heal these old wounds. Which of course at that point were 500 years old.And so he took it upon himself to visit different communities of Protestants. Descendants of these early Reformation movements and make apologies for the horrific things that were done on the Catholic side. Perhaps the greatest example is that John Paul II visited a community of Bohemian Christians who were descendants of Jan Hus, or as we say John Huss in English >> Joseph Graber: John Huss was a Catholic priest and an early reformer He eventually gave up on Reform within the Catholic Church and left. >> Doug Grandon: And the Bishops gathered in the Counsel of Constance in the 1400s invited Jan Hus to come and defend his positions and promised him safe passage home. If he would do that. He arrived at Constance attempted to defend his position and he was arrested and put to death. And so John Paul the Second went to Bohemia and apologized 500 years later for this very offensive breaking of the Word by Catholics. >> Joseph Graber: As I've been speaking with different people it seems that many of the people who like my father, made the first step out were very wounded. Because of all- everything that came against them. Where I was protected because my father was the point man. He was the one going first and I followed in his tracks. The wounds didn't come to me. >> Lester Graber: And things had happened in my life, there were people that I would never forgive for what they did. You just kind of forget them, you just kind of push them aside. But I'm not going to forgive them, they were wrong. They were just wrong and they can just go suffer it. You know? But God spoke to me, and I realized, oh my goodness, we're going to have to forgive these people. We had to release them in our heart. And I remember quite a long list of people that I wrote down. People that had over the years in some way or another offended me or hurt me. Or just that I felt was not right. You know. I had Bishop's names on there I had my parents, my Dad's name was on that list. Went through each one. and forgave those people and I got a freedom that I never had before. And it just really released me. I believe God had got us ready for that. I was able to forgive everybody, they weren't hurting us they were hurting the Lord. If they were against us, they weren't against us- they were against the Lord that's what we saw by that time. And, so it was easy to just roll that burden on the Lord and not let it get us. >> Paul Veraguth: Here at the door of the castle we can explain how Church history works all the time. One principle is the following one. If you you lock someone out, and close the door behind his back, don't forget you are locking yourself in. Now for the ones locked in and being kept in prison, in spiritual prison of legalism. Of principles, of orders, of regulations, etc. They have a key in their own hands. At least one of the keys. And they can do much for their liberation by their own. They just have to know that they're the ones that turned the key. when they were shunning and banning others. So, by opening the door they would respect forgiveness and understanding of other people. of other ways to follow Christ, to believe in Him So there is no reason why those doors shut should not be opened wide in the future. This is a short address to all those who still are working and maybe not came to an end with their tragic history of persecution among the Amish people. >> Joseph Graber: Instead of using religion as a barrier to try to keep us safe- and that's what we do with religion a lot, we try to use it to make doors, often to keep ourselves safe, and that is wrong. That is not right. We should use our relationship with God to draw other people to Him not as a way to separate us off from everyone else. His power is strong enough, that there is security and peace in Him. He is our fortress, He is our strong tower. We don't have to try to build our own protective space [cowbells] >> Joseph Graber: Centuries ago some of my ancestors moved into areas in the Alsace and other places where they were encouraged, yes, sometimes even threatened and told, you can come live here. You can live out your faith, you can farm, you can do all of this. But, you must not proselytize. And so my ancestors went from being flaming carriers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to being the quiet in the land. People who farmed. People who had big families. People who were faithful, religious church attenders. But people who did not share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. [cowbells] >> Lloyd Miller: And so we say to the Amish, don't throw away the values that came down through your parents. God is calling you back to the place of the faith of our forefathers. Who knew what the blood of Jesus did for them, and spoke about it. Who had a testimony and who loved not their lives unto death. And I call it the inheritance that is given to us from times gone by. We have a responsibility to take this and to share it with those around us and with the world. To break this silence, and to break that vow we made that our fathers made in Europe that we would not evangelize we would not speak for our faith in exchange for no persecution social status, and wealth. The Reformation was aborted because we compromised. But God is wanting to restore and to heal, and to reconcile us. Back to Him. To become once again the shining light proclaiming His name throughout the entire earth. To be proclaiming the name of the Lord and experiencing and expressing the glory of God throughout the entire earth. That's our heritage! That belongs to us. Let's not trade it just to maintain a certain culture and stay in a safe zone. [music] >> Joseph Graber: I was in that prison tower the other day and I started trying to figure out how much Scripture would I be able to quote? If I didn't have the actual Bible with me. How much would I be able to quote? I got to handle a Christoph Froschauer Bible today from several hundred years ago. And it was a big Bible, and as I was flipping those pages and looking at them I thought, you know, this was not practical. You didn't- as you were on your way out to prison or on your way out to work, whatever was happening, you didn't just stick one of the Bibles in your pocket. You had to have a table to hold the Bible. You didn't even sit on a chair necessarily to hold the Bible in your hand, you had to have a table to hold this gigantic Bible. And then you had to sit there and read it. And you needed to memorize it. You needed to know what was in it, if it was going to help you. When I was nine years old, my parents gave me this little German New Testament I remember taking it to school, and after I would be finished with my lessons I would sit there and begin to read it. There was something about it. It was my third language, I was struggling to be able to pronounce the words but on Sundays I would see my Uncle and my Dad and the other ministers, and they would be reading from the Bible. They had the German Bible and there was something holy about the Scripture. And I wanted that. I would go outside and I would read it whenever I could. And if I couldn't go outside because it was winter time I would go up in my loft and I would hide up there and use a flashlight and I would read the Bible. I had learned how to pronounce the words, I really didn't know what I was reading. But I- somehow the sound of the words rolling over my tongue made me feel more holy. And I hoped that maybe, maybe, if I would read enough of the Bible on Sundays some of that holiness would rub off on me. I heard my parents talking. Dad was telling my Mom that my best friend, Marion, had on a Saturday morning in their house gone to his parents and said, okay I want to be a Christian And he had prayed with his parents and now he was a Christian I wanted that so bad. I wanted to know that I was a Christian. In 1994 I knelt here in this living room with my parents and surrendered my life to the Lord. My father's faith was transferred to me. And the faith of our father's took on a whole new meaning. Later that morning I was outside and I looked up and I saw my friend Marion riding his horse coming out of the National Forest woods And as he rode up to me, all I could think of was both of us are saved. [wings fluttering] How did your Amish family and friends react? What were some of the things that happened? >> Irene Eash: Well, we would continually get letters from back East. Well, one thing was we were so far separated from our close relatives but they, I guess, would hear stuff through the grapevine and they would write us. I mentioned a couple times that Eli and Marion gave their hearts to the Lord and then later when I said that, or wrote back that they were baptized. One of them said Oh, well I thought they were baptized before. And that was because they connected that giving their hearts to the Lord was automatically being baptised. You know, so that made me aware of, that we never say that in the Amish. You never say that somebody has accepted the Lord. In their heart. >> Joseph Graber: From that point on, my friend Marion and his brother Eli and I started spending a lot of time together. We, all three of us, had made a profession of faith and we became close friends. After we had left the Amish and were going to the community church, we would all meet after church and we would pray together. God was really working in us. >> Ora Eash: Our boys grew up around that and at present Eli is the pastor there. In spite of what the Amish told us that our kids are all going to go wild. And we are here to say proudly and honestly that our kids have all given their hearts to the Lord. >> Joseph Graber: The summer I was 15, after a special service here in this sanctuary my father came to me, he hugged me. And for the first time in my life he told me that he loved me. I was so deeply moved I went up there to the altar and I knelt down and I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ. For life, for ministry, for His purposes. I wanted to follow God the way my Dad was following God. One of the reasons why we're making this project is to help people understand the heritage and what it was, because in the days of Zwingli, and Mantz, and Grebal, and Blaurock, you know all the different leaders along the way. At first it was, we want people to have the Bible in their language and to be able to read it and decide to follow Christ. And again, with my father that had to happen again. To say, No, every man. It is not enough for us to tell you. You must read the Bible and understand for yourself and make that decision. Today we are breaking the silence. My Dad went first. >> Lester Graber: Salvation doesn't depend on good workds or living a certain lifestyle, or obeying Church rules, or wearing certain clothes, salvation comes through Jesus Christ. We are all sinners and have fallen short of the glory of God. In Christ, our past is forgiven and erased, we become a whole new creation. A whole new life. We cannot earn our salvation or our right to go to heaven. Or our right to be born again. It is a free gift from God to those who are willing to receive it as the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ. >>Joseph: I get to follow in those footsteps. I am so blessed to have this as part of my heritage. >> Paul Veraguth: Yeah, this is a true heritage. This is what they forget. They say heritage and they mean the way they build houses the way that they cook cookies, the way they wear suits and stuff, that is heritage to their understanding. But heritage is being in the footsteps of those who- I say always this is a place where the cloud of witnesses can be touched. And the heritage is to know the witnesses. And to go into their cloud. And for Amish and Mennonites their heritage- they're always talking about, they mean something different- but we mean the actual heritage would be those steps in faith into freedom. Casting, or breaking all yokes, and going this path of forgiveness and being led by the Holy Spirit in new ways the Lord wants to lead them. Not just withstanding the Spirit, what He is talking to them. This is their heritage. >> Joseph Graber: Amen. >> Paul Veraguth: It's also like, faith is more worth than life, and love is stronger than death. Those two sentences are for me perfectly what the true heritage is of Anabaptists. >> Joseph Graber: And it was here at the Mont Previor farm that Peter Graber helped build, that I actually got to get a piece of stone. I have a piece of the wall of the original house and barn from where the kitchen used to be. I am a blest man to have been able to come here and to walk in the houses of my ancestors. To see the places where they lived. And to see some of my spiritual heritage. I am very blessed. This then is my heritage, men reading Scripture for themselves, in their own language. Pursuing and seeking out the truth. And once they understand, choosing to follow Jesus Christ. 500 years ago in Switzerland, men were surrendering to Jesus Christ, and saying whatever you want of me, I believe in you. My father did that. He read the Word of God, he understood what the Lord wanted of him, and then he surrendered his life. And then he passed that heritage down to me. My moment was here in this sanctuary, surrendering my life to Him here. That's what my ancestors did, and that's what my father did That really is the faith of my fathers'. One of the things I have realized on this journey, is that the faith of our fathers' is not good enough. As long as it remains the faith of our fathers. It has to be our faith. We, individually, each one of us, have to realize, that there is a God in heaven who created the heavens and the earth we, each one of us individually, must open God's Word and read it. And each one of us must personally surrender our life to Jesus Christ. And then once the faith of our fathers is our faith, then it's good enough. But it has to be alive. It has to be ours. So this is part of the heritage that I have received from my fathers that I get to give down to my children. So how about you? Is the faith of your fathers just the faith of your fathers? Or have you personally examined the evidence? Have you come and looked at the Word of the Living God? And have you discovered that there is a God in heaven who loves you? Who sent His Son to die for you? And have you gone to the cross of Jesus Christ and surrendered your life to Him? Because then you too, can share in my heritage. [music]
