I Never Knew You
‘What have I given my life to?’

‘Many will say to me in that day, “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?” And I will declare to them, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!”’ Matthew 7:22-23.

Many Christians today are going through immense changes and challenges in their faith. Everything that can be shaken is being shaken. In the end of all things, and at the conclusion of time, what will separate people, is whether they truly know Father God through Christ Jesus, or are just busy being religious, serving something that looks like the real thing but isn’t.

In this story of truth, Pastor Sam McLean serves a modern church organization for 25 years. He starts churches and does ‘the ministry,’ then comes the great shock. He discovers he didn’t know the Lord at all. The church organization, its leaders, and all of its enamouring ways, had become his ‘god.’ Sam became ill and depressed, living on the edge of madness. The painful process of being marginalized, the isolation, and dying to all that he had loved and invested in, led Sam and his wife Dana into a whole new unexpected life. Through dramatic dreams, and God’s loving pursuit and grace, revelation and redemption came to Sam. With a simple desire to help others come out of soul-destroying religion, Sam and Dana were led by the Holy Spirit into a new ministry. As it slowly unfolded, they affected people’s lives all over the world.

The unexpected change took Sam and Dana’s life into deepest Europe, and an Italian connection that led them into the political and economic upheavals in the Middle East. With a princess in the great Arabian desert, God used them as a catalyst to bring change into the Islamic world. They touched the lives of people in government, Christian ministers who had given up hope, and many others who had become tired of religion going nowhere and taking people further away from truly knowing God. This is the ninth book release by Stephen Bennett and his first full novel. This story of fiction packed with truth relates to many going through transition and change in the Body of Christ today.