Heath Loftis' Christian Testimony
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Pastor Heath Loftis U.S. Senate Arkansas |
1. When and how did you become a Christian?
Heath Loftis: "I was in a Ken Freeman revival, and I was with a group of my friends. Before the service one of my friends asked me if I would pray with them concerning the upcoming services. It was there I realized I knew a good deal about God and had everyone persuaded that I was saved, but I was not. So I stumbled through a prayer, realizing I had no relationship with God. His Spirit did not bear witness with my spirit that I was a son of God. Being convicted of this reality, listening to the preaching of the gospel, I took God at His Word that He would save me if I believed in my heart, and called on the name of the Lord."
2. How did becoming a Christian change you?
Heath Loftis: "Sanctification was not as apparent as it should have been in my teenage years after that tent revival. I struggled with the assurance of my salvation wondering if I did everything right. It wasn't until I went off to college and sat under some great Bible teachers and the reality of 1 John 5:13 hit me. Was I trusting in Him now? If yes, then it doesn't matter if you did everything right back there when you were convicted. It's that you are believing and that HE did everything right. From that point, I had confidence, confidence to witness and confidence in the Scriptures. It was from this place, God called me into the ministry."
3. How would you describe your relationship with Jesus today?
Heath Loftis: "Running for office has hampered my prayer life a good deal. I used to spend much more time in intercessory prayers. His working in and through me His good pleasure is still ongoing. I also bear this confidence, 'The Lord will perfect that which concerns me, Thy mercy, O Lord, endureth forever, forsake not the works of thine own hands.' And now I am as Paul who said, 'I am what I am by the grace of God.' "
4. Which church in which city do you attend most often?
Heath Loftis: "I pastor Park Avenue Baptist Church in Stuttgart, Arkansas."
5. In the past 12 months, how many church services have you attended?
Heath Loftis: "All of them, 3 services a week. Along with continued Bible studies on Monday and Thursday AM within my community."
6. In the past 12 months, how much time have you spent in prayer to God daily?
Heath Loftis: "I feel this to be a closet question, but about 1 hour."
7. In the past 12 months, how much Bible reading have you averaged daily?
Heath Loftis: "2-3 hours a day."
8. Do you believe Jesus always has been both God and the Son of God?
Heath Loftis: "He is from everlasting. Coequal and Coeternal. 'If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father.' "
9. Why did Jesus die on the cross?
Heath Loftis: "He died to satisfy God's wrath and justice concerning our sins so that we COULD be forgiven. So that God could be just in punishing sin but also merciful to all who accept His Son."
10. Do you believe Jesus rose from the dead?
Heath Loftis: "If I didn't, I'd be above all men most miserable. I'd also be a liar for saying God raised Him from the dead, Whom He raised not. So ABSOLUTELY."
11. Do you believe Jesus ascended to heaven and will return someday?
Heath Loftis: "He is seated at the right hand of the Father making intercession for me. He is coming again FOR His saints, and He is coming again to rule and reign WITH His saints."
12. By what criterion do you believe people go to heaven?
Heath Loftis: "If they believe that Jesus died for their sins according to the Scriptures, was buried, and rose again according to the Scriptures. If they believe that Jesus would save them from their sins, if asked. Believing this, they call on the name of the Lord, they are then saved."
13. In the past year, how many non-Christians have you told why Jesus died?
Heath Loftis: "Can't quantify. Aired commercials that bore this message, along with preaching, and teaching, and campaigning."
14. Which gift(s) has the Holy Spirit given you, and what fruit(s) has it borne?
Heath Loftis: "Evangelism, knowledge, and teaching. It bears itself out in the office of pastor as well in every context where we are doing Bible study or given an opportunity to speak to any crowd."
15. What do you pray to God for/about our nation?
Heath Loftis: "That He remains longsuffering toward us, to remain unwilling that any should perish but that all come to repentance. To let there be a stay of judgment just long enough to reach a few more. Judgment is inevitable. He has given us today, tomorrow is not promised. All we have is today to reach those we love with the gospel."
16. How do you define "marriage"?
Heath Loftis: "The way that Jesus did when He referenced Genesis 2:24 - 'Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.' "
17. Under what circumstances do you believe abortion should be allowed?
Heath Loftis: "None. A child is a person at conception without exceptions. Ectopic pregnancies are not abortions. They are another procedure entirely."
18. What remedies do you advocate against illegal immigration?
Heath Loftis: "Enforce the laws of deportation and the expeditious prosecution of illegal entry. No more of this arraigning a court date a year later that they don't show up for. Deportation should be immediate."
19. Where can the rest of your policy positions be read?
Heath Loftis: "I can derive every one of the policies I would advocate for completely with the Scriptures: PastorHeathLoftis.com."
20. What would you like to say to Arkansas' Christian voters?
Heath Loftis: "I'm not going to Washington to give them hell, they already have that. I'm going to give them Jesus, and if they won't receive Him and choose to die in their sin, they will go to hell. I'm not going there to conform to their way of thinking. I'm going there with the foundation that all our freedoms were based on the Scriptures.
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