I had been a church goer since my early years and then drifted away in my 30's, After a divorce I didn't put any thought into whether what I was doing was right or wrong. Waiting for back surgery in 1988 I was at home & started watching Christian TV which was mostly a joke then. But the Lord dealt with me one night, after I had gone to bed and was reading a book, and that lasted from about 9AM until daybreak the next day. I felt his presence in my room and another presence and I knew if I ignored it, turned out the light and tried to sleep that the battle would be lost for my soul. Later I was led to go to a Christian Book store (when they were still mostly Christian books) and found Dave's book "The Seduction of Christianity."A couple of yrs later I found "Beyond Seduction". When I started reading the first one I thought it was so strict and rigid. I went back to that book over and over for years and then the same on the other. As I re-read them I had grown enough I recognized they were neither strict nor rigid. I was baptized (not Methodist sprinkled as I was the first time at 12--but baptized in a river.) I still read those books often and have bought copies for other people that profess a real interest in them . If I could take only 3 books with me anywhere it would be the Bible and those 2 books. Since then I have Many of Dave's books written by him and many by he and Tom. You can see he has had, and is still having, a great influence in my walk with the Lord. How wonderful to know he is with the one that he always loved the most and worked so hard for. May his wife have great comfort though his presence must be greatly missed. I know I will miss him on this site and knowing he won't be defending the Lord by writing more. He has left a great Legacy.