About Don Britton
I grew up with just a little Christian influence. My mother and grandmother did take me to a community church on some occasions, so, I was introduced to some facts about the Bible and God. Mostly, Sunday school stories about Noah and the flood or Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. Since I grew up in the 50's and 60's, there was still some spiritual Christian influence in the public schools. Most teachers had a Bible on their desk and often referred to the Scriptures when moral questions or issues came up. When I was a young boy these influences had an impact on me for the good and I was very tenderhearted during those years. But, I was not born again at that time. And, when I got into my teenage years, I was soon influenced by the world and my own desires of the flesh. As a result, I began to be immoral with young women. This pattern became an obsession and ruined my first marriage and was carried on into my second marriage. When I was 32, my second wife (my current wife), told me that she was done with me and told me to leave. Even though my heart was hardened through many years of sin and rebellion to God, I remembered those early years of hearing about Jesus, and came to the conclusion that the only hope for me was in God. So, one Saturday in late 1979 I called on God in the privacy of my home and in the back-bedroom closet. I was broken into tears and deep regret. I cried and cried out to God to forgive me and to give me a new start. I had heard from someone about being born again and getting to start all over. I repented, and the Lord met me that day and I promised Him then, that I would do whatever He showed to me to do and I would also tell others about Him. I quickly lost all my worldly friends and my life was suddenly changed. My wife took me back and we both began a journey of walking with the Lord together. Soon, we were going to church.
I assumed that the church would be filled with righteous, holy, godly people. I felt so unworthy to be in the presence of such godly people. But, it did not take too long before I discovered that the church had a lot of people practicing sin and some were committing adultery like I used to. There were also liars, pretenders, gossips and a number of other sinners showing up in the church, and I was troubled by all this. So, we changed churches and it didn't get any better. Over a period of 3 years, we went to a Charismatic church, a Baptist church, a Presbyterian church, Kay Arthur's Reach Out Ranch, various bible studies, various revivals and various other "Christian" seminars and I began to feel very discouraged. I almost turned away from the Lord by my third year as a Christian, because of the hypocrisy in the church and the confusion brought about by many different teachings coming from many different denominations and ministries.
That is when a good man visited me and told me that I needed to get into the Word of God for myself and find out the truth about all my questions and concerns. Since I had never done any serious research in my life to speak of, this seemed like an impossible task. I thought you had to go to Bible college to be trained to study the Bible, and I felt completely unqualified to try such a grand thing. Reluctantly, I went and bought a couple versions of the Bible, a concordance, a Greek dictionary and a Hebrew dictionary. This was in late 1982. I began to study like my life depended on it. I eventually did exhaustive word studies on every topic I had been taught and discovered that almost everything I had been taught in church was either totally false or only partly true, which makes it false. By the next year, I removed my family from the church world and taught them at home. As time went by, other people started meeting with us and I continued to study more and more about everything that came up concerning "Christianity".
Doors opened for me to speak about what I was learning from my studies. Over the next 7 years, I spoke in prisons, different churches, various homes, seminars, Bible conferences, Christian men's meetings and any where else I could. During this time, we still had a home church with a few families. All the while I owned and operated a transmission & auto repair shop. I never took any payment for my speaking engagements or from the people I discipled. During the Late 80's I stopped traveling and began to focus more on my own family and marriage. As a result, I began to teach marriage seminars in my own city, since the family situation was so bad everywhere I went. Over the years, our home church grew bigger than our house or driveway could accommodate, so we started meeting in a rented space.
I am now almost 71 years old. I have walked with God for 39+ years. I have seriously studied the Scriptures all that time except for the first 3 years of my walk. I am very concerned about the American "Christian" church world. So many people are deceived. So many people don't seek God. So many people are in sin while they think they are going to heaven. So many people are lukewarm and complacent. So many people don't study the Scriptures, but just go by whatever the pastor tells them. So many pastors are just leading by repetition learned from traditions passed down to them, without taking any serious concern for the souls and the lives of the people or the fact that so many are living in sin. Therefore, so many people are going to hell and don't even know it. The purpose of this website is to try to stimulate people to seek God through study and prayer, so they might be a part of the very few who will be saved. The website will provide writings, audio and video teachings as well as links to worthwhile ministries as available. I hope that some people will wake up before it is too late. I hope you find the truth and have peace with God. Don't trust any man, not even me, but check out the Scriptures for yourself. There just can't be a "thousand" denominations with a "hundred" ways to heaven all being true at the same time. It is everyone's personal responsibility to find the truth for themselves, and they cannot pay any man (pastor) to do that for them. Jesus said, "if you abide in my Word, you would know the truth and the truth would set you free". May you abide in His word and know the truth and then you will be free and free indeed!
Sincerely,
Don Britton