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Pastor Maury Davis Case Study
Title: Pastor Maury Davis- A Speaker or a Convicted Murderer
Description- Pastor Maury Davis serving as the senior Pastor at Cornerstone Church Nashville appears like a run-of-the-mill usually preacher.
There are a lot of people who still take Maury Davis as a convicted murderer while there are others who look high upon him thinking him to be one of the best priests at the Cornerstone Church Nashville, Tennessee. Davis’s life has been an inspiration for a lot of people who find no hope in life and for the ones who find it very difficult to live life based on positive thinking and good deeds. Davis has always helped individuals like students, faculty members and staff members from getting the best out of their lives by having a firm belief in
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The Almighty came in like a flood for Maury. Davis says that he met hopeful people in life who had firm belief in God and their lives even while they were imprisoned. These people served as a ray of hope for Davis and this is the time when a new transformation took place in his life. The scales of disbelief and fear were taken off his eyes by God and he felt as if he was a completely new-born Christian. It was God who worked towards melting Davis’s heart made of stone and offered him the radical redemption and the joy of serving the entire 20 years of imprisonment which was indeed not that long. In his deep association with Christ, Davis transformed himself into a completely different person and was released from prison only after eight and a half years of serving the prison term. this was only because of the good conduct that he showed at the prison and this continued even after he was out of the prison. The rest of his life, Davis has spent in spreading the message of God to all the hopeless and broken people in life. He inspires them to live life to the fullest serving as the living example of the fact that there is absolutely nothing that can separate any individuals from God’s

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