{"id":2406,"date":"2007-04-18T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/wow-evel-knievel-is-a-christia.html"},"modified":"2007-04-18T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T00:16:00","slug":"wow-evel-knievel-is-a-christia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/wow-evel-knievel-is-a-christia.html","title":{"rendered":"Wow! Evel Knievel is a Christian!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t know that he was a Christian<\/a>:<\/p>\n

O<\/b>n Palm Sunday, hundreds responded to Robert “Evel” Knievel’s testimony by asking to be baptized on the spot at Crystal Cathedral. Speaking alongside the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, Knievel told the congregation in Orange County, California, how he had refused for 68 years to accept Jesus Christ as Lord. He believed in God, but he couldn’t walk away from the gold and the gambling and the booze and the women.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know why I fought it so hard,” he said. “I just did.”<\/p>\n

But Knievel knew people were praying for him, including his daughter’s church, his ex-wife’s church, and the hundreds of people who wrote letters urging him to believe. And then something indescribable happened during Daytona Bike Week this March.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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(via<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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