by Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001)
MEDICAL DOCTORS I HAVE SEEN SAVED
When our daughter, Becky, was ill for several months I got to thinking about doctors whom I have seen saved.
In a revival meeting in East Texas one time a leading doctor in the town was converted.
Then in Garland, Texas, where I pastored for nearly seven years, we had a medical doctor come forward to receive Christ. The interesting thing is that we had a chiropractor deacon, and it was he who was called on to do personal work with the medical doctor. I found myself chuckling during the invitation as I realized that a chiropractor was leading an M.D. to Christ. (Boy, that is the wolf and the lamb lying down together, isn't it?)
Then one day here in Hammond a medical doctor came to be saved. He knelt beside the pulpit to receive Christ, and as he did, a skid-row drunk knelt on the other side. I chuckled as I praised the Lord, for the altar is one place where the ground is level.
This doctor had a little daughter who literally fell in love with our church. Soon the family moved to Champaign, Illinois, and they tried to find a satisfactory church. The parents seemed fully satisfied, but the little girl could not be happy.
Now in those days our deacons sat on the front rows in our church, and the little girl was very impressed by this. The parents asked her why she was not pleased with the church in their new town. She replied that she liked First Baptist Church, Hammond, better because the pastor stood behind the pulpit and the "demons" sat on the front row!
Thank God that at First Baptist we have no "demons"-it is a godly Board of Deacons.
Whether one is a doctor or a fallen man on skid row, the need is the Gospel.
