Dear Craig,
I wanted to write you this letter to thank you for all you have taught me over the years I have known you. This letter is truly too less of an expression for my gratitude for your obedience, sacrifice, and endurance in ministering to students like me at ECU. You have not only taught me by words, but also by the way you live what you teach with your family. The ripples of your ministry to me on this campus during the last few years will surely resonate throughout the rest of my life.
You have helped develop doctrine and theology with me that have transformed my life. You have shown me how to be a student of scripture and view it as all sufficient in my life. I must admit I did not view scripture as high as I should have when I first came here to Greenville. I have now learned the necessity of studying it to see sin decrease in my life and my love for Christ increase. This has permeated into how I make decisions, teach others, and develop as an active member in the Church.
I will tell you I came to college with no view of personal ministry. I thought college was a place where I would grow in Christ and where I would be fed scripture, not where I would sacrifice that others might learn and grow in Christ. Thank you for pushing and challenging me to see what Jesus says about having a personal ministry.
Thank you for always being willing to help me think through the though decisions and events in my life where I needed guidance. You are truly wonderful at taking the truth of scripture and applying it rightly to the lives of students, and more specifically, my life. I am profoundly blessed to have had you in my life and I know that I have already communicated that to you. I feel equipped by what you have taught me for the next year to come in Crusade and even on passed graduation. I look forward to reading your newsletters of all you are doing in Wake Forest and how Christ will use you in the life of others.
In Christ,
Eddie Sanderlin
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