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Oil shortages. Energy crisis. War in the Middle East. Political scandals. Doomsday prophets pointing to Armageddon. Is this today? No, it’s the 1970s.

The dam of the Watergate scandal bursts, ending the career of President Richard Nixon, while hastening the ignoble end of the Vietnam War. The Yom Kippur War between Egypt and the Israel precipitates the Arab Oil Embargo, which creates an energy crisis with soaring gas prices and long lines at the pumps, daylight’s saving’s time pushed back to January, and the imposition of the national 55 mph speed limit. After "The Late Great Planet Earth" comes out, Comet Kohoutek, the Comet of the Century, contributes to uneasy feeling that these might be the end times.

Pastor Bill Renfrew comes back to his hometown Colter, Montana fresh from Bible college on a mission to save a holy remnant for God in America. He sets himself up a pedestal as he thinks he knows more than anyone else and he’s smarter than anyone else. To do things God’s way is to do things his way. Tapping into the angst and malaise of the times, he targets the vulnerable and the naive.

When Samantha Matijevic turns eighteen and enters Colter College, Pastor Renfrew snares this disoriented girl from a small town into his fold until she wises up. When Samantha Matijevic butts heads with stubborn Pastor Renfrew, he gets his pedestal kicked out from under him. When his followers attack him, because they don't like to see their "gods" sin, Pastor Renfrew blames the Colter Church Conspiracy.

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Chapter 1
“I have been saved many times!” the housewife snapped back.

“I see.” Bill Renfrew marked the questionnaire form attached to his clipboard.

Melody Renfrew, his wife, glanced at the question, “Are you saved?” and noted that her husband had checked the “NO” box. She nodded without a blink.

Pastor Bill Renfrew, a dark haired man with a tonsured bald pattern, had identified himself as some kind of pastor, yet he did not wear the traditional clergy collar. He presented a clean-cut salesman-like appearance. A navy blue suit covered his egg-shaped physique and drew attention to his blue eyes.

Mrs. McKinney thought it seemed harmless enough that this self-proclaimed pastor and his frumpy wife only wanted a few minutes of her time to fill out a quick survey. They even pitched a free gift. That hooked her.

Pastor Renfrew glanced at his clipboard as he asked, “Do you regularly attend church?”

“I’ve been a member of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church since I was child.” Mrs. McKinney gave a firm nod with her lips pressed tightly together.

“But do you regularly attend church?”

Mrs. McKinney fidgeted, wondering why she felt that she had to explain herself to these strangers. “Of course! I was baptized in that church. I was confirmed in that church. And I was married in that church.”

“Do you know for sure that if you died tonight, you would go to heaven?” Pastor Renfrew continued the interrogation.

Mrs. McKinney darted her eyes about. “Well, I hope so.”

“Hope so?” Pastor Renfrew found the opening to witness to this apostate, whom he had already judged did not know Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior. “Would you like to know so?” Then he added dramatically, “Beyond a shadow of a doubt.”

Mrs. McKinney backed up from the doorstep into her enclosed porch. How symbolic, thought Pastor Renfrew. Out of the light into the darkness. Afraid that he was loosing her attention, he reminded her, “Remember that free gift?”

Mrs. McKinney’s eyes lit up. The pastor grinned.

Bill Renfrew offered this poor lost soul The Roman Road to Heaven, a spiritual map, if followed, that would lead the lost to Christ. Mrs. McKinney looked askance at the tract, but took it anyway just to get these people off her doorstep. Pastor Renfrew began reciting slowly selected verses from the Book of Romans in the New Testament: “All have sinned and have fallen short of the glory God, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Meanwhile, Mrs. Renfrew affected a “happy face” throughout the entire conversation as she continued to grin, exposing big teeth, whose edges were gilded with gold from old dental work.

Mrs. McKinney lost all patience. “This is the free gift?”

“Salvation! It’s God’s free gift!” Pastor Renfrew gave the punchline followed by a nervous laugh. “We would love to tell you more about it—”

“No, thank you!” Mrs. McKinney blushed, ashamed that she had been tricked by their gimmick into answering all their nosy questions. “God, I hope they don’t ask for money,” she...

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