My name is Keitumetse Kukuni. I grew up in a Methodist family, being raised by a single parent, my mom, since my parents divorced just before I turned three. As soon as I started high school, I left the Methodist church and joined a Brazilian cult called Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. I was devoted to this “church” wholeheartedly. Soon my mom and my younger sister joined me after seeing my zeal. Ashamed, I recall evangelizing people to join this cult.

It was during this time that Tsholo met me and began to ask me thought-provoking questions about who Jesus was. I could not tell him. He then pressed and asked why we do the things we do at church and demanded support from Scripture. I could not show him. He then demonstrated to me how blind I was. Graciously, the Lord allowed me to see that the once-and-for-all sacrifice for our sins was His Son Jesus. Jesus was not presented to us as God in this cult or even as the Savior. We were taught that He delivers us from the calamities of this world, but we were never told about our spiritual condition before God.

I realized then that I had to abandon this cult. The entire book of Hebrews opened my eyes to the gospel, especially since this cult emphasizes sacrifices. I now know that it is by God’s sovereign grace that I was saved; it was not anything that I did, but only what Jesus had done for me on the cross.