evel knieval testimony

Post by **_TK** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:26 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZVNOGtEINw

sounds as if he had been reading some CS Lewis, especially from comments made about Jesus toward the end.

TK

Post by **_roblaine** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:56 pm

This is a great testimony! He mentioned reading "The case for Christ" which was written by CS Lewis. Thanks for sharing this TK.

Robin

Post by **_schoel** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:01 pm

roblaine wrote:This is a great testimony! He mentioned reading "The case for Christ" which was written by CS Lewis. Thanks for sharing this TK.

Robin

Wasn't "The Case For Christ" written by Lee Strobel?

Post by **_Steve** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:33 pm

I have known Evel Knieval's daughter Tracy and her husband Mitch personally for years. They served at YWAM Honolulu for a long time. What I had been told by Tracy was that her mother was a Christian, and prayed for the salvation and safety of both her husband and her son. Her prayers may be having their desired effect.

Post by **_roblaine** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:25 pm

schoel wrote:
roblaine wrote:This is a great testimony! He mentioned reading "The case for Christ" which was written by CS Lewis. Thanks for sharing this TK.

Robin

Wasn't "The Case For Christ" written by Lee Strobel?

Your correct. C.S. Lewis wrote "The Case for Christianity". My misstake.

Evel may have been referencing a book call "C.S. Lewis's Case for Christ" by Art Lindsay, though it seems likley that he read Lee Strobel's book.

Robin

Post by **_Blev** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:19 pm

I live here in Tampa. There was a radio station that use to call and do phone pranks on him about 10 yrs ago, and a lot of it was fueled by the stories of him beating his wife, and her calling into the radio station when they were getting a divorce...and such. He would tell them, "I'm Evel Knievel the meanast SOB that ever lived, I'll rip your head of and *bleep down your throat!" It was funny to listen to at the time.

About 8 years ago I worked an event at an art gallery in Tampa that displayed his rocket from the Snake River Canyon Jump, and one day he was there too. I was standing next to him, and he had a little cooler of beer next to him, and when he ran out of beer, he yelled to the woman that was with him, I assume his wife, and said, "Go get me some more beer!" I assume from the generic/strange looking car that they drove in on.

I watched his story on the history channel, and I've got to say that as a man, he had some big Cahuunas!

I am glad to see him accepting Christ this show, I hope is son does too.

Post by **_TK** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:54 am

Toward the end of his testinony, he said that Jesus didnt leave us with the option of accepting him merely as a great moral teacher, etc. The way he worded it is very close to comments made by CS Lewis in "Mere Christianity":

I am trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I am ready to accept Jesus as the great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a boiled egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

TK