Even after serving 12 years as a missionary, the evangelist’s wife felt empty. All the good deeds she performed were just something to check off the list. The things she did weren't out of passion or the desire to do good in the world.
She grew up in an environment where she was taught right from wrong, and she hadn’t done anything bad by the standards of the world she was raised in. But everything she had done was out of her sense of duty and discipline. Charo came to the conclusion that she was not a Christian because she didn’t have the desire or heart to read the words of God.
Charo was always with Paul when he told sermons and preached in churches. One day she confessed to her husband how she felt about not being a true Christian, which led to the evangelist helping her through the gospel and scriptures of evidence.
He helped her go through the Book of 1 John—the first of the Johannine epistles of the New Testament, and the fourth of the catholic epistles—and made her realize you either pass the test in 1 John or you fail them, there is no middle ground.
In her testimony, she thanked God and his glory for saving her when she thought she couldn’t overcome her struggles. She was also thankful to God for showing her that she should follow God with all her being, which freed her from all the burdens.
