"The Pentecostal Experience And The Apostolic Way."

The Olsons Testimony

A year ago, we came back to Change of Life Pentecostal Tabernacle. The first time we came to the church was a little over two years ago. The want to stay was not a mutual decision between the two of us. So ultimately, we decided not to go back. It was a hard year because although we didn’t stay at the church, what we heard in this church, stayed with us. It was all Bible. Pastor Hoffman is a true man of God that doesn’t give you his opinion or his interpretation. He teaches you the Word of God and how God’s Word interprets itself with itself. My husband (Ryan) knew what he had found from the first time he stepped into Change of Life. He found a REAL church. One with a Pastor who didn’t care about hurting your feelings if it meant saving your soul. My wife (Melanie) was reluctant to hear it the first time she came. She struggled with the idea that a lot of the things she thought about being a Christian, were wrong. And now she was hearing it straight from the Bible…but she didn’t want to admit that that was the case. A year went on. Our marriage struggled. Maybe not to the outside world, but behind closed doors. We felt disconnected from each other and from God. In the midst of it all, Pastor Hoffman would visit me (Ryan) and continue to encourage me with scripture and godly wisdom. Never giving up on a man that clearly was hungering and thirsting for the true Word of God and what it truly meant to serve the Lord. We struggled with a miscarriage in that year which led to us falling back into old habits to fill the void. What we didn’t realize until one night when my husband (Ryan) sat me (Melanie) down one night and we had a very vulnerable conversation about our emotions, our fears, our mental states…my husband told me (Melanie) what I knew was true. I (Ryan) told my wife (Melanie) that we were dying spiritually. We had no relationship with the Lord….