I was doing a tour for UNICEF to help vaccinate Third World children and I got a call from my wife telling me that (our son) was being treated with Thorazine [which is used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia] and strapped to a gurney at the psychiatric hospital. He was in the States I was in Ireland.”
Barry said that this caused him great confusion and he began lashing out at God in his hotel room over the dire situation.
He said, “It may work for other people, but the very boy that I wrote Bullfrogs and Butterflies for is right now locked up, strapped down to a gurney and with his brain shut down on Thorazine drooling from his mouth.
“I said, ‘Where’s your healing power. It either works or it doesn’t work. There’s no two ways about it. You throw the switch and the light is on and you can then throw it off and it turns off.’ That night I said, ‘Forget it. I’m out of here. I’m gonna walk away for all of this.”
Barry said that this occurred about fourteen years ago, and after he calmed down, he told me, “Then I thought, ‘well where would I go? Would I go back to live like I used to and dive back into that septic tank of filth and immorality and debauchery that God pulled me out of? I thought, ‘Man, I can’t do that.’
“Then I thought about my years in Christ and what God had done in my life and the transformation that has taken place within me. I realized what Peter said which in essence was ‘Where would I go? You’re the only one. There’s no life outside of Christ.”
“And I thought, ‘I know that to be true through my own experience. This other stuff that I’ve been taught doesn’t work. So I must have been taught wrong because something’s missing and is not right.
“So I began to think about when Jesus first started his ministry and he said, ‘Follow me.’ And when he finished, he said, ‘Abide in me.’ And that was my moment that I knew that if I was going to follow him, I had also to abide in him. And to ‘abide’ in him means to live in him and for him to live in me. [Read the entire article >>>]
Barry said that this caused him great confusion and he began lashing out at God in his hotel room over the dire situation.
He said, “It may work for other people, but the very boy that I wrote Bullfrogs and Butterflies for is right now locked up, strapped down to a gurney and with his brain shut down on Thorazine drooling from his mouth.
“I said, ‘Where’s your healing power. It either works or it doesn’t work. There’s no two ways about it. You throw the switch and the light is on and you can then throw it off and it turns off.’ That night I said, ‘Forget it. I’m out of here. I’m gonna walk away for all of this.”
Barry said that this occurred about fourteen years ago, and after he calmed down, he told me, “Then I thought, ‘well where would I go? Would I go back to live like I used to and dive back into that septic tank of filth and immorality and debauchery that God pulled me out of? I thought, ‘Man, I can’t do that.’
“Then I thought about my years in Christ and what God had done in my life and the transformation that has taken place within me. I realized what Peter said which in essence was ‘Where would I go? You’re the only one. There’s no life outside of Christ.”
“And I thought, ‘I know that to be true through my own experience. This other stuff that I’ve been taught doesn’t work. So I must have been taught wrong because something’s missing and is not right.
“So I began to think about when Jesus first started his ministry and he said, ‘Follow me.’ And when he finished, he said, ‘Abide in me.’ And that was my moment that I knew that if I was going to follow him, I had also to abide in him. And to ‘abide’ in him means to live in him and for him to live in me. [Read the entire article >>>]
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