April 3 - Ron Mack

My best friend and I were Engineering Students at Michigan State. In 1978 we were studying our required credits of Humanities and Social Science in London, England. My roommate and I were part of an MSU 52 student and 2 professor overseas study group. On Sundays we would attend church in London at John Stott's All Souls Church at Langham Place. John Stott, at that time, was a popular theologian having written many books including "Basic Christianity".

While in England, my friend had a calling from God to be a pastor. He was telling this new vision to everyone in our group. Because of his exuberance, he was called out in class publically by Dr. Katz, our MSU professor. Dr. Katz was not impressed. My friend and roommate told the professor and all 52 MSU students in the class that he was going to be a pastor over a big church, that he was going to have a church bigger than John Stott's, that he was going to write books, that he would be on the radio every day. I was frozen in embarrassment as this was playing out in front of me. I couldn't quiet my friend. He was very determined to communicate this. The professor, Dr. Katz, responded back to him in a disdainful manner. The professor was not impressed with this youthful naive boasting.

For me personally at that time, and looking back at my reticence, I could not have been more wrong. In time, everything coming out of that kid's mouth has come to happen just as he was describing it back then... and more. My MSU roommate is now my Pastor, Lloyd C. Pulley.

Then he (Joseph) dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars were bowing down to me." But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?" And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

Genesis 37:9, 10, 11