Copyright 2006 by Sidney Harris 
Have you ever experienced something that no rational explanation can describe? I did once.
I was living in Schenectady near Albany in the spring of 1978, and I asked out this amazingly beautiful young woman who worked at Albany Savings Bank; at least one parent was from Brazil. Her response was that I could go to church with her sometime.
So one Sunday afternoon, she and some friends picked me up and took me to a church in Troy, a really eclectic group of congregants.
At some point in this LONG service, the pastor went around and asked each person if they had been saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. Though I had had a “saved” experience when I was nine, I was in my theologically doubting period, so I didn’t raise my hand.
After this, the folks converged on us unwashed folks. We went to the altar, and they began chanting GEEEE-ZUS GEEEE-ZUS. And in a relatively short time, I was talking in a language I did not understand; apparently, I was speaking in tongues! And they gave me some clothes to change into so that I could have a full-emersion baptism downstairs.
I went home, never heard from any of those people again, and this event had almost no long-term impact on my life.
So do you have any events in your life you cannot explain?
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