Home > Today's Christian > Today's Culture > Books
Today's Christian, November/December 2002
Left Behind: Stronger Than Fiction
Nearly 3,000 people have written to say they accepted Christ after reading the Left Behind series.
Ken Walker
Jerry Jenkins
|
Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins' multi-million-selling Left Behind series has boosted Christian fiction to new levels of respectability, last year knocking John Grisham from a seven-year reign at the top of the best-seller lists. But Jenkins, the writing half of the duo, treasures the fact that nearly 3,000 people have written to say they accepted Jesus as Savior after reading the end-times saga.
Veteran author Norm Rohrer is interviewing some of the correspondents to compile These Will Not Be Left Behind, planned for release next year. One letter came from an 80-year-old man whose eyesight was so poor he had to use a magnifying glass to read the books. Afterwards, he asked someone to pray with him so he wouldn't be left behind. "He said it wasn't because of what he saw through the glass but what he saw through his heart," Jenkins says. "That was a particularly moving one."
Another came from a couple in Minnesota whose teenage son had strayed from church. Convinced by the first book to mend his ways, he planned to give some to friends. But before he could, he died in an accident. His parents distributed copies at the funeral, and several of his friends later received Christ.
"It's almost like we're past aspirations and goals," Jenkins adds. "Our hope is that we just continue interest in the books until it's over so as many people as possible can come to Christ through this."
—Ken Walker
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Today's Christian magazine (formerly Christian Reader).
Click here for reprint information.
November/December 2002, Vol. 40, No. 6, Page 14
Browse More Today's Christian
Home | People of Faith | Stories of Hope | Today's Culture
Build Your Faith | Laughing Matters | Archives | Contact Us
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Try an Issue of Today's Christian
Free!
|
 |
|
No credit card required. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Offer valid in U.S. only. Click here for International orders.
If you decide you want to keep Today's Christian coming, honor your invoice for just $17.95 and receive five more issues, a full year in all. If not, simply write "cancel" across the invoice and return it. The trial issue is yours to keep, regardless.
Give Today's Christian as a gift
Buy 1 gift subscription, get 1 FREE!
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
| |
|
