Millard Fuller's Million-Dollar Repentance

In 1965, Millard Fuller was a thirty-year-old millionaire in Montgomery, Alabama, with a law practice, a Lincoln Continental, and a marriage falling apart. His wife Linda told him she was leaving. The money, the country club memberships, the Sunday morning appearances at church — none of it had made them whole. Fuller drove to New York City to find her, and in a cramped hotel room, they wept and prayed and made a decision that baffled everyone who knew them.…