“You have! How did you get to know Him?”
“Through that little book and by following its teachings.”
Cameron turned over the pages again, catching familiar phrases here and there as he had heard them sometimes in Sunday school years ago.
“You said something about a promise. What was it?”
“That you’ll carry the book with you always, and read at least a verse in it every day.”
“Well, that doesn’t sound hard,” mused Cameron. “I guess I could stand for that.”
“The book is yours, then. Would you like to put your name to that acceptance card in the front of the book?”
“What’s that?” asked Cameron sharply as if he had discovered the fly in the ointment for which he had all along been suspicious.
“Well, I call it the first step in knowing God. It’s your act of acceptance of the way God has planned for you to be forgiven and saved from sin. If you sign that you say you will accept Christ as your Saviour.”
“But suppose you don’t believe in Christ? I can’t commit myself to anything like that till I know about it?”