Church planter’s past fuels gospel mission in Omaha

OMAHA (BP) —Like so many others over the last 2,000 years, Tanner Devereaux couldn’t get over the words of Paul’s letter to the Romans. Sitting in a Missouri prison cell and reviewing a gospel tract given to him by a friend, Devereaux felt like Paul was writing directly to him.

In Romans 3, he read: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23, CSB). That, he thought, was certainly true of him. Then he arrived at Romans 5:8: “But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” God began to draw him. Finally, he read Romans 10:9: “If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”