"Where Two or More Are Gathered"

At a small college in my home state, a sophomore one evening, settling down for quiet study, sensed a strong, strange compulsion to go to the campus chapel. Why? He had no idea. Was he supposed to pray for someone or for some event? He could pray on his knees right where he was, if he only knew what to pray for. Yet, he was moved to go.

The dim-lit chapel was empty. He dutifully took a pew and waited for something to happen. Nothing. On the brink of leaving, he later reported, he virtually “heard” a voice command him to remain. Soon, there began to arrive at the chapel, one after another, several of his friends -- each drawn with the same feeling of mysterious urgency. As they discussed the bizarre premonition that had brought them together, a student they little knew entered. She was in tears, visibly shattered by some dreadful crisis. They went to her side, listened to her story, offered what counsel they could, and prayed for her. By the end of the evening she was calm and restored, resolved to face and conquer her adversity . . . and she had accepted the personal salvation and Lordship of Jesus Christ.

True story.