Ray Pritchard: “The man, the myth, the legend.” Dr. Pritchard is an excellent teacher, as many of us have experienced. Ray Pritchard He’s a man after the Lord’s heart, and also a family man. He met his wife Marlene at Tennessee Temple University. They have been married for 43 years. Together they have 3 grown sons who are all married. Mr. Pritchard and his wife are the proud grandparents of 8 and consider their four grandsons and four granddaughters blessings from the Lord. Dr. Pritchard became a Christian shortly after his junior year of high school. He was attending a youth retreat and came to see that he did not personally know the Lord. That was a shock to him because he was a baptized church member and had been for a good chunk of time. “I was exposed to young people who knew. I realized I had religion, but they knew Jesus! I trusted Christ that weekend in 1969. I was 16 years old.”
Keep going back to the truths of the Gospel. Get to know the Lord and learn to grow in Him.
Since then, he has been living for the Lord, but how has he been living for the Lord?
Dr. Pritchard and his wife were involved with the pastorate ministry in their local church for 27 years, but just in the last 12 years, God made it very clear to them to start “Keep Believing” Ministries. They started with a book depot, and that expanded to the internet. They now minister around the world, in person or via internet radio. Their ministry “provides biblical teaching to equip pastors, train the next generation, win the lost, and encourage Christians to keep believing in Jesus.” It seems like they are certainly accomplishing their desired goal. I asked Dr. Pritchard if he had some advice or wisdom he would like to share with the student body and this is what he had to say: “The Christian life is not difficult; It’s impossible without the Lord. But with Christ, all things are possible. Martin Luther said we need to preach the gospel to ourselves every day because we tend to forget it. Keep going back to the truths of the gospel. Get to know the Lord and learn to grow in Him. If you do that, He will direct your path, and you will end up exactly where He wants you to be.” Dr. Pritchard is right; we will face challenges along the way. But if we sincerely pursue a relationship with the Lord, He told us Himself that His burden and yoke are light.
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