By: Steven Braatz, MD

Steven Braatz, MD — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:34:41 +0000

Thank you for printing this. Pastor Price met with me regularly and discipled me in 1975-76 while I was in High School. I did not appreciate him at the time but now I realize that he influenced me greatly. It was good for me as a young man to witness a man who lived 100% to serve Christ. I did not enjoy memorizing the Bible verses he kept pressuring me to memorize. But now, I tell young people that memorizing verses was one of the best and most important things I did in my walk with Christ. He was somehow both brutally straightforward and gentle with me. He was always full of joy. I would often see him around town carrying his Bible, going from one place to another, visiting people, witnessing, encouraging, praying. He was tireless!

During the time he worked with me, it must have seemed as if I was not responding very well to the gospel. I was only halfheartedly responding. I wonder what he thought about that? A couple of years later I made a serious commitment to follow Christ and I’m not sure Pastor Price ever knew. He wrote me a few letters in college. I never responded. I’ll always be sorry about that. I was still immature and thoughtless.

Well I’ve been walking with Jesus many years now. I guess the man in whom I first really saw Jesus was Pastor Price. I wish I could talk with him now and tell him how much his work and testimony meant to me. Maybe I can pass on his legacy in the words I speak and actions I portray to other young men who are trying to find their way. May His will be done. Amen.
Steven Braatz, MD
Janesville, CA

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By: Steven Braatz, MD