Testimonies

“God brought me to His Steps in order to show me the way to Him, and Tim Brown and those associated with the ministry introduced me to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I have struggled for 20 years with alcohol and drug addiction and my life appeared to me to be hopeless. I tried all the worldly approaches to my problem including AA, various rehabilitations, and even doctors and Psychiatry, the latter of which just allowed me to turn to more medications in which to cure me of my affliction. None of these solutions worked for me. I was truly hopeless. What His Steps Ministries taught me was that addictions were sin and nothing else. Not a disease for which there was no cure, and if I was sincerely seeking God and repentant of the sin of drunkenness, God could and would change me. I would be a new creation no longer a slave to sin. My biggest problem was that I had an incorrect relationship with God. I have come to believe that the sin of drunkenness is a form of idolatry. Wow! Drunkenness is a sin and I don’t have to sin because God has made me a new creation and I am no longer a slave to sin. God changed me - I didn’t change myself. I had a bad heart and He made it new. These concepts were so different than anything I had been taught previously. Alcohol and drug addiction is a sin, period! The only victory I can have over any sin is through my savior, Jesus Christ. That makes Jesus Christ my only hope for the sin of drunkenness. There is no other place I would want my hope but in the saving blood and grace of Jesus. He has changed me and given me a hope I never thought possible. I want to serve the Lord with my whole heart because of what he did for me. He brought me out of death into life in Him. God used His Steps Ministries to show me the way to my Lord. I thank God for Tim Brown and His Steps Ministries.”

Greg Beaver
Huntsville, Alabama

"My association with His Steps Ministries has been the most positively influential experience in my life, thus far.  God has used Tim and his ministry to truly show me my need for, not only a Savior, but also a Lord, and His name is Jesus Christ.  Had you asked me when I arrived in July of 2003 whether or not I was a Christian, the answer would have been an emphatic, “YES”!  I believed that, regardless of my behavior, I was saved.  This was based upon the idea that I did believe in God, Jesus His Son, the Resurrection, and so forth.  But I did so intellectually, not relationally.  I did not have the detestation of sin that brings about true repentance, the repentance that only an act of God can muster.  Tim, through intense discipleship, has taught me what my responsibility is in building a relationship with Christ.  Ultimately, I am responsible for obedience to God’s word, and the Word teaches that drunkards (drug abusers) will not inherit the Kingdom of God.  As a Christian, I have the choice to obey my flesh, or to obey God.  Through God’s spirit, I can now choose obedience, obedience in love to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Thank you Tim, for your dedication to, and love of, God." 

Branden South
Montgomery, Alabama