Interdasting - Trey Gowdy's faith -
A native of Spartanburg, S.C., Gowdy had turned down a scholarship to the University of South Carolina’s law school and, almost as an escape, considered moving far away to Las Cruces, N.M., to join a friend’s construction business.
Searching for answers, he secluded himself at a friend’s western North Carolina lake home. Though he had received Christ as his Savior as a young boy, God seemed far away.
After fishing one afternoon—and catching nothing—he turned on a black-and-white television set in the den, figuring he would watch sports.
Instead, he landed on a channel with Billy Graham preaching.
He was cut to the heart and fell to his knees.
“I’m lost,” he cried out to God. “You’ve got to help me. Please give me a sense of purpose and direction.”
It was a divinely inspired turning point, re-igniting his relationship with the Lord and infusing him with vision.
“You don’t have that many inflection points in life that you can point to and say it represented a change,” says Gowdy, now 52. “That would be the most important one because from that came most of the good things that have happened in my life.”
Gowdy enrolled in South Carolina’s law school—minus the scholarship that had already been awarded to someone else.
“He stands firmly on the basic, fundamental tenets of the law of the United States of America and does so with a heart that is governed by the essential mandates that God gives us through His Word and by His Spirit,” says Gowdy’s pastor at First Baptist Church of Spartanburg, Don Wilton, who also serves as Mr. Graham’s personal pastor.
https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/february-2017/trey-gowdy-washington-watchman/