I’ve been privileged to know a handful of people in my life who exude optimism every time I come into contact with them. They are always upbeat, always positive, always grateful.
Bill Jeynes is one of those people. He is a professor, scholar and evangelist. He keeps such a busy schedule preaching, researching and teaching that onlookers would think he must be exhausted and overwhelmed. Yet the more he does, the more energized Bill seems to be.
That’s because Bill is a man of prayer. Not just before meals times or at church. A cynic might say, sure, he’s got it made. But Bill has spent years in school to get multiple degrees, not to earn more money, but to have a broader scope to advance the gospel.
Skeptics also might say Bill has had it easy. But that’s not the case, either. Bill was essentially abandoned by his father and, at age 8, left in the care of his mentally unstable, atheistic mother. From that time on he pretty much had to fend for himself. As a teenager, Bill contemplated killing himself — until he encountered God in a dramatic way. He’s never been the same since.
For more than three decades, Bill has been making a difference in bettering the lives of people throughout the globe. He is a role model to me, a sometimes-cynical journalist who too easily gets a warped view of society and Christians. I hope to escape the mundane, live above the fray and be a blessing to others as Bill is.
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