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West Branch, MI, August 28, 2019

77-year-old man drags himself out of the woods after breaking his neck and spine”¦

On September 22nd, 2016, Gerald L. Melvin was enjoying his afternoon in the woods preparing for opening day of deer season. He was strapping up a 12-foot tree ladder stand in preparation for bow season on October 1^st. As he attempted to secure it in place, he lost feeling in his knees and legs from kneeling for too long on the expanded metal. When he stepped back onto the first rung of the ladder, he misstepped and fell, landing on a stump, resulting in breaking his neck, spine and fracturing his pelvis which left his right leg paralyzed.

What happened after is what prompted Melvin to write his book, “To Be Eaten Alive”, Was my FEAR, Not my FAITH. It took him over three and a half hours to drag himself to his car, then attempt to drive another 45 minutes home to get help to the hospital. Sadly, Melvin’s story just got worse from there.

What motivated Melvin to crawl out of the woods was the fast approaching nightfall and the fear of being eaten alive by wild animals. He didn’t want his family to remember him in that way.

Just 2 months prior to Melvin’s fall he conveyed to his daughter, Karie Millspaugh, that he wanted to write a book about God’s timing and faith. She made sure he turned that idea into reality by stepping in as chief editor to their daddy-daughter project. Millspaugh stated that she was going to do whatever it takes to see this project come to life, even if she had to transcribe each word her dad wrote on a notepad, which is in fact, exactly how he wrote this book.

Readers are claiming that they understand faith in a whole new way just after a few short chapters of Melvin’s book. People prefer to learn from those that walk their talk and Melvin’s story of his horrific accident along with many other faith-based experiences is doing just that.

Quote from Melvin, “Don’t get in situations without God because you’re going to have to trust totally in someone outside of yourself when you can’t walk or barely crawl — You realize that the physical has let you down but the spiritual never will.”

To Be Eaten Alive, Was my FEAR, Not my FAITH is now available on Amazon.

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Teleios Research surveyed young Christians to evaluate opinions about accepted forms of church and biblical resources. Of the 185 participants the majority were: female (63%), <35 years old (72%), from the United States (70%), and evangelical (70%).
This survey showed that these mostly young, evangelical, Christians viewed their local assembly as a valid form of the church (86%). However, many also considered broader community-based Christian relationships (61%) and online fellowship or Bible study (46%) legitimate manifestations of the church.
Regarding their spiritual life, again the local church was noted most often as benefitting expressions of the Christian growth: prayer (86%), praise (90%), fellowship (90%), outreach (81%), and learning scripture (86%).
However, community Christian contacts apart from church also helped Christian growth (range of the 5 expressions noted above (41-51%). In addition, online interactions with individual Christians (31-43%), and organizations (26-33%), and especially in learning the Bible (56%), were important in helping Christian growth. In contrast, local parachurch organizations were reported as meaningful by 12-22%.
Within the local church itself, the resources that most helped participants’ Christian life were: the head pastor’s sermons (79%), the worship service (70%), fellowship (59%), and Bible studies (58%). In contrast, the least important resources were identified as: accountability groups (22%), and non-teaching church-based service such as a helps ministry or assisting with childcare (21%).
Parachurch organizations assisted just over a third of participants, most typically with Bible study (38%) and fellowship (37%). Online resources also helped through streaming other pastor worship services (40%), their own pastor’s worship services (35%), or sermons (34%) or other pastors’ sermons (27%). Bible study groups (35%) and fellowship (30%) also were identified as beneficial.
The survey demonstrates that young Christians are intent to take advantage of a variety of advantageous resources to assist their spiritual life, which most commonly derive from the local church. However, they also utilize online resources and other local individual and parachurch organizations to further their Christian life.
Complete results of this survey can be found here, and please view more findings from Teleios on our website.

WC Stewart, JA Stewart, LA Nelson
About Teleios — Teleios is a non-profit foundation that seeks to demonstrate the truth of scripture and the Christian faith through scientific methods by providing evidence for the positive results of a biblically-based lifestyle. Prior studies conducted by Teleios have shown that the practice of the Christian faith (praise, prayer, fellowship, service and Bible study) and security of salvation increases well-being while reducing guilt.

Enhanced Bible Study Using Greek Word Definitions for English Translation

CHARLESTON, S.C. Feb. 6, 2019 —The Bible represents the source of spiritual truth for evangelical Christians. The original language of the New Testament was Greek and subsequently was translated directly to English. Therefore, analyzing the original Greek words might be useful to better understand the intent of the New Testament writers.

Teleios studied the utility of interpreting the Greek words in Bible study by analyzing the verbs and nouns in the book of Ephesians 1:1-14 translated from the English King James Version. Two graduate students from Dallas Theological Seminary, who each had completed 3 years of Greek course work, independently analyzed the text by grading the included words using a well-known Greek lexicon, Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.

The results showed there were 73 verbs or nouns in the 14 verses analyzed. The primary grader found 10 (14%) words for which the Greek definition did not add useful information to the corresponding English word.

In contrast, the Thayer lexicon helped clarify the English word definition in 19 (26%) instances. In 6 (8%) further instances the lexicon added historical information that highlighted the meaning of the English word.

In 37 (51%) additional occasions the lexicon provided a more precise definition to the English word based either on the word’s history (n=7) or how it was used in other verses in the New Testament (n=30).

In one case (1%) the Greek definition provided a plausibly better definition for the word. The secondary grader disagreed with the first grader’s analysis for 6 (8%) words.
This study showed that using Thayer’s Greek lexicon has multiple advantages in performing consistent Bible study among students including: clarifying or adding historical context to the English term, adding more precise definitions to the meaning, or adding a possible better definition, than supplied in the King James version.

More research is needed to fully understand how to maximize current Bible study tools to gain the most in understanding the Bible.

Other findings from Teleios Research are on our website (http://www.teleiosresearch.com/). WC Stewart, Z Skarka, E Armstrong, JA Stewart, LA Nelson
About Teleios – Teleios is a non-profit foundation that seeks to demonstrate the truth of scripture and the Christian faith through scientific methods by providing evidence for the positive results of a faith (praise, prayer, fellowship, service and Bible study) and security of salvation increases well-being while reducing guilt.

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My name is Talie Bowles and I am a PR/Communications intern for Teleios Research. Teleios is a nonprofit foundation that works to show the truth of the Bible through scientific research and produces practical tools for scriptural understanding. Teleios conducts a variety of prospectively planned studies, surveys and medical literature reviews that demonstrate how the Christian faith can enhance well-being. I think their research would be a great fit for a story at the Christian Post. I would love to send you a copy of our latest press release, that covers a survey about younger Christians sharing the gospel If you have any questions, need more information, or are interested in sharing, please contact me. I appreciate you taking the time to look at our content and look forward to hearing from you.

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Teleios Research analyzed the financial and work efficiency of secular versus Christian private related relief organizations operating in the United States. The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability’s online database was used for the Christian-based organizations and Charity Navigator for the secular-based organizations. The Christian list was analyzed first and matched to similar organizations on the secular list that were active in at least three states.

Types of organizations included in this evaluation were family and child, medical, education, urban development, poverty alleviation, and legal services. Types of organizations from the secular-based list unable to be matched to a Christian agency were those that advocated abortion or LGBTQ+ rights.

This study included 69 Christian-based organizations matched to 69 secular-based organizations. The analysis revealed that Christian-based organizations spent a lower percentage of total expenditures on overhead (10% versus 15%; P= 0.003) and a greater percentage on relief (83% versus 77%; P= 0.0008).

No significant differences were found (P> 0.05) between groups in other parameters including: overhead cost (averages given for Christian organizations first; $7,339,814 versus $2,857,418), overhead cost per person ($159 versus $255), number of people served annually (1,319,342 versus 1,192,525), total amount spent ($65,427,988 Christian versus $60,072,752), total budget minus administrative cost per person ($1,687 versus $1,650), and absolute level of money spent on relief ($53,368,485 versus $55,154,135).

This study showed both secular and Christian-based organizations provide substantial amounts of services to help certain groups within the United States. Christian-based organizations appear to work more efficiently with a lower overhead and a greater percent given to relief.

Other findings from Teleios Research are on our website (http://www.teleiosresearch.com/). WC Stewart, AC Kleinhans, JA Stewart, LA Nelson
About Teleios – Teleios is a non-profit foundation that seeks to demonstrate the truth of scripture and the Christian faith through scientific methods by providing evidence for the positive results of a
biblically-based lifestyle. Prior studies conducted by Teleios have shown that the practice of the Christian faith (praise, prayer, fellowship, service and Bible study) and security of salvation increases well-being while reducing guilt.

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YORBA LINDA, CA: Seeing a steady decline in Christian hosted events notably since 2008, two seasoned, Christian authors/speakers lamented over the drastically reduced number of opportunities to invest in the Christian audience and share the gospel message to the unchurched. “The need for the gospel message in our culture is perhaps greater today than any other point in my lifetime,” stated Pamela Christian. Lead Founder of Exceptional Keynote Speakers.

EKS is a new kind of bureau. The roster of members includes some well-known names, and some soon to be better known names from across the country. Each is eager to pool their talent with the bureau, sharing the common belief that instead of having fewer events to infuse the world with much-needed truth, we need many more.

A few things set Exceptional Keynote Speakers apart:
– They seek a wide variety of talent and expertise, without any serious duplications to give each member the best chance of being booked in their genre.
– They work with churches and organizations and maintain involvement during the planning stages to help minimize risks and be in better position to meet the client’s stated goals.
– Within the EKS roster there is enough proven talent to fully staff even the most elaborate events from concept to completion.
– All members of the roster are included by invitation only.

Christian explains, “We wanted an invitation-only roster so we can select people we personally know, who will uphold our values, and reputation. Our brand is Christianity–it’s got to be above reproach.”

When asked about the timing of EKS, Christian explained, “A tremendous void has been formed with the dismantling of many speaker’s bureaus and discontinuation of many annually held events. However, the need for intimate, small group fellowship, medium-size retreats and conferences, and huge stadium-size events still exists. So, it seems to me the model of yesterday is what quit working. We’re creating a new model.”

EKS is not a passive bureau waiting for churches or organizations to contact them. Instead they pro-actively contact potential clients, making known the full scope of services, then seek to partner with the church/organization to plan and conduct events to meet the client’s objectives. One target for EKS is to help various churches in a specific community or region to join efforts to produce events that attract the unchurched. “The increasing evidence of community distrust and expressions of hatred can only be harnessed with the love and truth of Jesus” according to Christian.
“We know the risk the Meeting Planner takes when attempting to plan and conduct an event. By partnering with the Meeting Planner bringing our collective multiple hundreds of years experience, we help alleviate much of the risk. That’s why we say, Exceptional Keynote Speakers is where the Meeting Planner gets the applause.”

Exceptional Keynote Speakers is officially launching September 1, 2109. You can get a sneak peak of the growing roster at https://exceptionalkeynotespeakers.com/

For more information or to make inquiry, contact Keri Spring, Marketing Director. Email is marketingdir@exceptionalkeynotespeakers.com. Phone is 714 988-3357.

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