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A new hope
ith a twinkle in his eye, Scott Phipps will tell you that it all started the day a preacher sold him his convertible. The top leaked and there happened to be a red leather Bible in the back seat laying right in the path of the water. Scott’s wife, Tammie, didn’t go to church but she had just enough fear of God that she was afraid to let anything happen to that Bible. She called her aunt (a regular churchgoer) and asked her for advice about how to repair the water damage. Her aunt told her to lay the Bible out and turn the pages as it dried. As Tammie dried out the pages, she started reading them and began to call her aunt with questions. Her aunt relayed these events to her friends at church and they 22
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all started praying for Tammie. In hopes that her aunt would stop asking her about attending church, Tammie planned to go to just one service in order to deliver the Bible. When Tammie came home that night, she told Scott, “Jesus saved me, I don’t want drugs anymore, and I love you.” Scott began to see that if he wanted to stay married he had to change. More importantly he realized that he needed what his wife had received. He sought answers at a nearby church, chose to follow Jesus Christ, and his life took a dramatic turn.“I thought I was living life and enjoying myself, but looking back I can see how miserable I was,” Scott recalled.
