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i started this thread to share my awakening and possiblely others. i am not very handy with computers and was unable to find simular threads.so if this doesn’t belong somebody please put it where it does. the reason i chose the name awakenings is because when i was baptised the spirit of God was planted in me then and that is when someone is born again not when they awake to who they are meant to be. was born into a catholic family instructed in the faith but some how i felt the church wasn’t the right church with my own bible reading i felt that what i saw in the church didn’t match up with my idea of ‘church’. the local pentacostal church to my ill informed mind seemed more true to the bible. i had some friends in that group who informed me quite sincerely the pope was the anti-christ and my own dear mother,Mary, was actually a whore re revaltions. my lack of understanding in the matters of conspucious(sic) helped to keep me in sin. going to confession didn’t help cause i didn’t completely confess my sins out of fear of angrering the priest and the whole congerations hearing his rage would know how sinful i really was. on i went repeating my sins. once my father to us to the pentacstal church one sunday when i recieved commuion ther i thought to myself oboy the real CHRIST. no it wasn’t puzzled by the lack of nourishment i carried on still thinking yes they were the real church. i tried to repent at one of the local bible camps but some how it didn’t stick for long. many many sins and moons later istood in the true church looking at hte devot christians there my thoughts were less then nice towards them. i realized my sins had me trapped tightly and pride ran fully in my viens. still i thought this isn’t the real church. even after a couple renewing their vows the preist had the congeration pray for the Holy Spirit to bless this couple i had no trouble with the bride but the groom i disliked greatly so i thought if i think unkind things of this man my blessing would be null.lol. by the time the prayer was over i could have gave this man a heart felt hug. all week ibrooded over what had happened to me this day so imade the decision to jion the bible church which had sprung up in our town. so on my first day of ‘freedom’ i went to thier gathering. while sitting there listening i thought this place is lacking something and the pastor was way off base. my wife called the parish priest to have our children baptized. and it was through the baptism classes that i was fully aware of the errors of the prostant way of teaching. also the word of God spoke to me and removed all my doubts about the trueness of the church.sorry for boring yous so much but that is most of my story. may God help us amen.