I once met a man who told me that, twenty-one years before, he had been without question the worst man in town. He had been a drunken, blaspheming skeptic, but a bit of God’s Word heard at an open-air meeting had reached his heart and he turned to the Lord Jesus Christ.
He was a mechanic, and in the shop where he worked were six other unbelievers. They first laughed at him, and then afterwards often tried to draw him into argument. His only reply was simply: “I am not going to argue with you, for you can beat me at that; but you know what I was, and you see what I am now. If you want to argue, argue with the power of God that saved and keeps me.”
They saw it, and their mouths were closed. They could not argue with that. Before long he had the joy of seeing these six fellow-workers become fellow-Christians!
He could truly say that I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.