Steve Bannon rose to fame as the former editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, and then as the chief media strategist for the first Trump administration in 2017.
Bannon today hosts the popular conservative political podcast War Room.
Apparently while serving time in the Danbury Federal Correctional Facility in Connecticut for contempt of Congress, Bannon had a cellmate named Tim Huntsberger whose life was radically changed for the better because of the message of the Great Controversy.
Bannon says he is not familiar with Mrs. White’s writings personally or the Seventh Day Adventist Church, but that his experience with Huntsberger and the Friday night prison missionaries from the Seventh Day Adventist Church convinced him that it's improving peoples’ lives.
“This book had a powerful impact on a guy who was a criminal,” says Bannon in the Facebook video. “It changed his life and really saved his life . . . This faith actually changed his life.”
Though Steve Bannon has been a polarizing figure, Adventists everywhere should pray for him now that he has come so close to the truth. If he were to convert, just think of those he could reach. He will likely read this great book.
Let this also be a reminder to faithful Adventists to continue faithfully passing out Great Controversy “like the leaves of autumn” as Mrs. White counseled. If there is a prison or jail near you or your church, start a prison ministry. Jesus is coming so soon, let's finish the work and preach our message.
“It is the life that impresses unbelievers and is a savor of life unto life or of death unto death. Publications should be scattered like the leaves of autumn throughout the world. Let reading-matter follow the interest that is aroused at our large gatherings” (HM February 1, 1890, par. 8).
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“How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” (Isaiah 52:7).