About John Goodway

Hello, my name is John Goodway

Born in 1949, I spent most of my life not knowing or caring about whether there is or is not a God. I was shocked when one day I was challenged by the realisation that for seven years I had been angry at a God I claimed I did not believe in.

I had lost my wife to cancer. She had some belief in this God and popped along to church on occasion. How come, if He was there, she suffered and died at the age of 35, while I, a non-believer, was still alive? Like you probably, I have seen some awful injustices in my lifetime — babies dying, people living with disability, criminals getting away with murder, and much more.

If there is a God, who I was told was a God of love, how can He allow this to go on? Why does He not step in and change things? How then could I be angry at someone who is not there? How can I blame Him?

This now had me thinking.

Someone had given me a Good News Bible and I had read in there that this God loved me, even though I denied His very existence. I also read that there was nothing I could do that would make Him love me more. I could not earn His love — I just had to accept it.

I now had to make a choice: stay angry at Him who does not exist — but then who was I angry at? — or accept that He is there and deal with it. I chose to believe, and this changed my life completely, and for the better.

I came to faith, said sorry for all I had gotten wrong, and was baptised in January 1997. I have had this website set up to try to help and encourage anyone struggling with life to look into the whole subject of faith. Is this you?

I go around delivering the Good News Newspaper, chatting to those who wish to talk. I am not a Bible basher, just someone whose life has been improved by finding Jesus.