Jesus is the Only Saviour/ Yesus Satu-Satunya Juruselamat

Berikut ini adalah kisah tentang bagaimana seorang psikolog yang pada awalnya menggunakan pendekatan psikologi yang didasari pandangan dunia yang sekuler tapi akhirnya dia bertobat dari pandangan dunia tersebut setelah dia melihat kasus dimana ada pasien yang akhirnya dapat berbicara hanya setelah dia berbagi tentang Injil Yesus Kristus. Tetapi akhirnya dia dikeluarkan dari Rumah Sakit tempat dia bekerja karena dianggap telah sesat oleh pengikut psikologi sekuler.

Kalau ada waktu saya akan terjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia.

OJS

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Four Little Words

When we returned to the United States I was given a patient at the medical centre who hadn’t spoken an intelligent word in four and a half years. My assignment was, Get Immanuel to speak four or five words coherently. He came into my group therapy session, sat down and began to hyperventilate and writhe around. He said, "I’m Jesus Christ!" I pulled out a Gideon New Testament and read from the 24th chapter of Matthew’s Gospel: "Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it ... For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be".

Silence.

"Where did you read that?"

I threw the Bible to him, "In the Gospel of Matthew. Read it."

And for a month he was silent, then he came to my office: "Dr. Ganz [I was impressed], I want to become a Christian."

I took Immanuel into my office, shared the Good News of Jesus with him and, with tears, he received Christ. The next day the director of my department called me into his office. "Rich", he said, "I have been here 31 years and I’ve just heard the craziest story. Immanuel has been running around the ward telling everyone who will listen that he’s saved."

I interrupted at that point: "How many words did it take him to say it?" I was hoping they’d realise what great success this was.

"And that’s not the worst of it, Rich", he said, "he’s attributing it to you. Many people wanted your job, Rich, and I’ll tell you what we’ll do. If you promise never to do this again - do it after work if you must - but if from nine till four you leave Jesus out, we’ll forget this ever happened."

I asked for a day to think and pray about it and the next day I said, "Howard, I’m going to share with you what I believe", and I summed up by saying that I must obey God and could not keep Jesus from my patients. I was fired and Immanuel left the hospital with me and went to Bible College where he prepared for missionary work.

I couldn’t believe what had happened. Psychoanalysis was all I knew; I couldn’t do anything else with my life. If I went to another hospital or another university the same thing would happen. I thought everything was over.

Someone suggested that I go to Westminster Theological Seminary where Dr. Jay E. Adams, the author of a number of books on counselling was a professor. I spent the next four years studying at Westminster and working with Dr. Adams at the Christian Counselling Centre. Through this God led us in a very unusual way into something I never would have chosen to do or to be involved in - pastoral ministry. The years have not seen me smiling and happy all the time. Daily breaking and humbling by God has been excruciating in some ways. God had called me to preach his Son and, as Paul of Tarsus put it: "Woe is me if I do not preach the gospel."

Through my story I have tried to preach the gospel to you so that you might believe in Jesus the Messiah.

http://www.rpcottawa.org/testimony.php

A man claims, "I am God." He is breathing hard and writhing. Richard Ganz hesitates, then responds by reading the New Testament: "False Christs and false prophets will arise."

The man suddenly calms down and asks what Ganz is reading from. Ganz gives him the New Testament. Four weeks later the man calmly walks into Ganz’s office and announces, "I want to become a Christian."

Richard Ganz was a clinical psychologist working at a state hospital. The man who claimed to be God had not spoken a word for several years. Nor did he speak again until he told Ganz that he wanted to convert. After that, however, he could not stop speaking of the healing power of Jesus Christ. He was able to leave the state hospital soon afterward, a changed man.

Shortly after he left, Ganz left too. Ganz was also a changed man. Before the incident he had been a secular psychologist who happened to be a Christian. But when confronted with an apparent incurable who suddenly wanted to know about the gospel, Ganz became a Christian counselor. His boss gave him a chance to apologize for using the Bible and pledge to sin no more, but he refused.