Like many others, Richard Lehman was raised around religion and some Bible teachings. But without the truth of the Gospel being taught and lived around him, he "drifted" into the typical "rut" of going to a church, but still being bound as a sinner. And So his way of life was to go to a church regularly, but live like any old sinner the rest of the time. Finally when he was 21 years of age he met someone who testified to him how the Lord Jesus could save him completely from sin and give him the power to live holy and right every day. He started attending the Church of God in Carmichael, CA where he heard the plain Word of God preached, taught, and lived without any mixture of men's ideas and doctrines. It was not long after that Richard came to the place where he fully repented of his sins, and of being just religious. The Lord Jesus Christ mightily saved him completely from all sin and has kept him that way ever since!