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There are always a variety of ways people use their skills or open doors to share their faith. Here is one that made it into the news.

[Tennessean.com: Picture and content] He can’t turn water into wine or walk on water, but put a pool stick in his hand and Eric “The Preacher” Yow can work wonders.

Yow can make a cue ball leap over obstacles and jump through a miniature basketball hoop, or zigzag around a billiard table as if under remote control.

He says it’s all part of using his talents for God.

“If God has blessed you with five talents, he wants you to use all of them,” said Yow.

Yow, 25, a pulpit minister at Chapel Hill Church of Christ in White Bluff, is ranked No. 10 in the world of artistic pool players.

The Dickson County preacher also practices law in Clarksville.

Even though he has only been playing for eight years, Yow has already been named a world champion in jump shots and masse, a trick shot specialty.

Yow took his “Trick Shot Madness” exhibition to the Hendersonville Church of Christ on Wednesday night.

During a 15-minute mini-sermon he told students: “You were not created on an assembly line … we were formed in the image of God for a purpose.”

Then he stripped off his suit coat to reveal the cranberry colored vest of a pool shark and got to work.

While performing trick shots behind his back and standing on one foot, he mixed in Bible verses and stories about how God was working in his life.

Yow says that pool can be “a mechanism for bringing people to Jesus.”

“When I go to a pool hall and do a trick shot — all of a sudden, I’ve got their attention,” Yow told the students on Wednesday night. “And you know what I do then? I preach Jesus to them. That’s really cool.”

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