Ask the Author: Jim Wilson
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Jim Wilson
I am currently finishing my latest book, Answered Prayer: The Faithfulness of God Made Manifest, which will release in late February.
Jim Wilson
During my second year at the Naval Academy, when I first became a Christian, I had no knowledge that there was any such thing as a Christian book other than the Bible. I began to suspect it a couple years later, but my real consciousness that there were Christian books came three and a half years after I became a Christian. In the spring of 1951, the ship on which I served stopped in Hong Kong, and while walking through Kowloon, I came across the Biola Bookstore and bought several books, including an InterVarsity Hymnal. The next several years, while I was on active duty, I would send to InterVarsity Press and buy a hundred InterVarsity booklets at a time and use them in my personal evangelism. I did this for several years.
In 1955 and 1956, my family and I were living in Japan and were able to hold weekend conferences with the Officers’ Christian Union. We got the Christian Literature Crusade to provide a book table at each conference. My interest in books greatly increased at that time.
In the fall of 1956, we moved to Washington, D.C., where I was on the staff of the Officers' Christian Union for the East Coast. After a year of traveling to the service academies with a briefcase full of books and booklets, I became very conscious of the need for more solid, Christian literature. During that year, I met six people who had come to Christ while they were alone, either reading the New Testament, a tract, or books that I had given them.
I realized that I could extend my personal ministry in an almost unlimited way in quality, quantity, and time by the use of books. I can only be in one place, but book can be everywhere. And the books can be working in the lives of people at midnight while I am in some other town sleeping. Quality, quantity and time… I realized I could greatly extend my personal ministry through writing and distributing books.
In 1955 and 1956, my family and I were living in Japan and were able to hold weekend conferences with the Officers’ Christian Union. We got the Christian Literature Crusade to provide a book table at each conference. My interest in books greatly increased at that time.
In the fall of 1956, we moved to Washington, D.C., where I was on the staff of the Officers' Christian Union for the East Coast. After a year of traveling to the service academies with a briefcase full of books and booklets, I became very conscious of the need for more solid, Christian literature. During that year, I met six people who had come to Christ while they were alone, either reading the New Testament, a tract, or books that I had given them.
I realized that I could extend my personal ministry in an almost unlimited way in quality, quantity, and time by the use of books. I can only be in one place, but book can be everywhere. And the books can be working in the lives of people at midnight while I am in some other town sleeping. Quality, quantity and time… I realized I could greatly extend my personal ministry through writing and distributing books.
Jim Wilson
My most recent book is How to Be Free: More Essays on Christian Living. It is a sequel to my best-selling title, How to Be Free from Bitterness and picks up where that one leaves off on discussing how to deal with sin in your life. The idea came from the popularity of the first book; I realized that many Christians believe they are enslaved to particular sins. But this is not true. The truth is that Christ has freed us from the penalty of sin and the power of sin. If you are a Christian, you are already free. Anger, envy, worry, depression—whatever your problem is, it can be put to death today. “And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” (John 8:32).
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