My name is Will Gaughan. I'm eighteen years old and a Freshman in College at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. My Major? Electrical Engineering, you know, just for fun. But Hey, this profile isn't about me. Nothing's about me anymore. It's all about God, all about our father who gives us such grace and mercy that we cannot help but take the focus off ourselves and put it where it needs to be.
Here's a brief testimony: When I was 4 years old, my biological father died, leaving me with a single mom, an older brother and sister, and a Jewish background. When I was five my mom got re-married to the man who's my dad now. At the time I wasn't overly fond of him. He was a foreigner, a Christian in my Jewish world. So I turned to look to my Uncle. And lo and behold, less than a year after my parents got married, my uncle was struck with ALS (Lou Gherig's disease). Alright, I had a Jewish Father, he died. I have a Jewish Uncle who I look to like a father and he's terminally Ill. I have a Christian Dad now, lets listen to what he's got to say.
And so he and my mother shared the gospel with me, showing me the sacrifice that Christ made for my sins, explaining to me the necessity of my repentance and his sacrifice. I became a Christian and all was well, right? Those of you who are Chrstians know that the point at which we devote ourselves to Christ and the point at which we begin living a Christian lifestyle are two very different time frames. I began to become enslaved to sexual sin, watching pornography, lusting after the women I saw in the street, allowing my mind to linger on that which it should have immediately condemned. for my middle school and high school years I lived much of a double life. I was a good christian at church, at home, even in school. I thirsted after my father, wanted so much to be free of my sexual sin; but when push came to shove, in the secrecy of my own heart, I loved my sin more than I loved my Lord.
The Summer before my senior yeah in High school God began to work on me. About a year later, my parents moved from Tucson to Florida. I got into a new church and the first thing that God did to me was send someone in this church to convict me of my sins. So now, I was convicted of my sins and Sorry for them but I was so deep in my sexual transgressions, so enslaved to objectifying women that I could not break it's hold on me. So God sent me off to college, with a room mate who was more on fire for him than I ever had been. It was through this young man that God brought me into an accountability group. I began getting into the word every day, reading the letters of Paul and the gospels of the new testament. Through this practice and a sudden, life changing brokenness over my sins that I was set free of this hold over me. There is no more pornography in my life, no more blasphemy.
Look guys, we are all sinners. Take a look at the ten commandments and judge for yourself. I've lied, I've stolen, I've lusted after a woman, coveted that which I didn't have and failed to honor and obey my parents. I put my sin before my Lord, and, in doing so, committed myself to the practice of Idolatry. Judging by those ten commandments, I deserve nothing but the fire of hell. It was only by God's grace and mercy that he allowed my to continue living at all while I was living in sin. But he went so much further than that. two thousand years ago, God, the creator of the universe, sent his son here to die a criminals death on the cross, just so that all of the sin that I lived in would not prevent me from ending up in heaven. You want to talk about grace and mercy? The best that I have to bring to my lord is but filthy rags and still he accepts me as one of his own. not only does he accept me, but he sent his very own son to hang on a cross, and die with my sins on his back so that I may call myself his child. I can not, and will not, ever be able to get past the grace, mercy and love that my father has shown me.

And guess what? He did the same thing for you. If you need to talk about anything at all, even if I don't know you, don't hesitate to send me a message, leave me a comment, or give me a call. (561-427-8925)
May the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of the Father, and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (2 Corinthians 13:14)