When Gerald was nineteen years of age he frequently dated a particular young lady who regularly attended the Baptist church near where she lived. It was while taking her to church one Sunday evening that Gerald accepted Jesus as his savior. However, not being a member of that particular church or denomination, he was not discipled or taught in the Word. As a result, Gerald knew Jesus as his savior, but not as his Lord.

Some twenty-one years later, at the age of forty, Gerald and his wife, Sherry (not the young lady he was dating when saved) both received the Holy Spirit baptism while attending a main line denominational church. Upon receiving the filling of the Spirit, Gerald was delivered of a demon of nicotine after being addicted for some twenty-two years. The Lord also opened his spiritual eyes with the ability to read and comprehend the Word of God, for the first time in his life.

Ten months afterward, the Lord spoke to Gerald about his inability to receive teaching at that particular church, and led him and his wife to a non-denominational congregation. At once they both began to receive insight into God’s Holy Word. It took a year or so of good solid teaching and study for Gerald and Sherry to understand scripturally what had spiritually taken place in their lives.

It was while worshiping at that non-denominational church that Gerald also learned that he had been called to teach. Since then he has spent some twenty-eight years studying the Holy Word. Gerald has also taught adult believers at various churches over the past. At one point he and his wife were "home-schooled" by the Holy Spirit for thirteen years.

19 Go ye into all the world and teach (make disciples - students of) all nations.

Gerald believes the Word of God teaches that everything on Earth produces after its own kind. He believes, in addition to this being true in natural physical things, it is true in the spiritual as well. In other words, it requires converts to produce converts, and disciples to produce disciples. One problem within the universal church today is that it sends converts to accomplish what only a disciple can do. Over and over, the apostle Paul wrote to believers to "grow up" - - - "to mature spiritually".

Gerald believes the commandment of Jesus to make disciples (students of the Word) and to spiritually mature converts has been given to him. He loves to see people come to know Jesus as their Savior. But his greatest joy is to see them edified so they might grow up in the Word, so they too might fulfill their calling and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. It is to that end that Gerald Benbow dedicates the anointed teachings presented on bibletruthsonline.com.