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YosefYosep
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I would very much enjoy your testimony if you dont mind sharing.
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Publisher
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I am a Christian becuse my deepest longingsā¦my life and joy found in Jesus of Nazareth was my salvation from a dark lonely place. I live because of Him. That is why I am a Christianā¦for me the love and mercy of God was āirresistableāā¦the alternative was a life of darknessā¦how could I not choose Light?
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YosefYosep
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I fully agree with you. God is great and almighty! How could one resist such awesome love? His love has literally brought me to tears.
God bless
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Lisa1967
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I became a Christian because I personally experienced Jesus Christ through my involvement with a student Christian group. Some friends invited me to the group when I was in college.
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CaptBell800
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I went through a very hard time of depression and despair for a while and wanted to know if there was any reason for life. I started to study a lot of different religions and philosophies. That led me to the Bible, and the history of the Bible led me to the Church.
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bzkoss236
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I was raised in a Catholic home, fell away as many do, but in my search for truth and answers, I stumbled my way back, following the breadcrumbs where they led me back to the Catholic Church.
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Mosley
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To this day I still have no idea why I became a Christian; my conversion was absolutely mystifying. I was raised without any manner of religion or spirituality, and until the age of 19 I lived a typical secular worldly existence, without any consideration of God.
Then for no apparent reason I began to be drawn to Christianity. In a state of confusion about this sudden onset of spirituality I threw myself into studying the Scriptures and Christian history.
I then timidly began to attend church, and over a period of some months I āsampledā many different congregations, however I was never able to feel genuinely comfortable in any of them, and as I researched more and more Christian History I was irresistibly drawn away from these protestant churches and towards the Catholic Church.
I never would have guessed that I would end up in the Catholic Church, having previously bought into all of the secular bigotry thrown upon it; yet here I am, I was baptised into The Church at 21 and havenāt looked back.
Then for no apparent reason I began to be drawn to Christianity. In a state of confusion about this sudden onset of spirituality I threw myself into studying the Scriptures and Christian history.
I then timidly began to attend church, and over a period of some months I āsampledā many different congregations, however I was never able to feel genuinely comfortable in any of them, and as I researched more and more Christian History I was irresistibly drawn away from these protestant churches and towards the Catholic Church.
I never would have guessed that I would end up in the Catholic Church, having previously bought into all of the secular bigotry thrown upon it; yet here I am, I was baptised into The Church at 21 and havenāt looked back.
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TC2
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I was raised in a Baptist home. My earliest church memories are of the sunday school rooms, taking a coloring book/crayons into church to keep me quiet, and falling asleep in the pew during the sermon.
I do not remember a time when I did not know/was taught that Christ was our Savior, the only way to Heaven. It was just a fact for me. At around 12 I was baptized, being ready to take that public step.
I wonāt ever say Iāve been perfect. Iāve fallen away from church, became worldly, sinned when I knew better. I rededicated my life to God when I went to college and got back into church and learning my faith.
Came out of college, fell away again. Met DH, reattended a small church together, was married in my home church. Fell away again.
Had our son. Talked about it. Finally committed to trying a church Dh picked. Perfect! (at least for us). We love it there. Sound Biblical preaching and teaching. Our pastor is very āblack and whiteā about sin/right and wrong.
During all those āawayā years, I never stopped believing in Him, but I surely didnāt live my belief.
So it wasnāt anything I did, but all Him and His grace that brought me where I am today.
Thank you, Father that you actually WANT us back, and keep on calling and calling us to bring us back to You!
I do not remember a time when I did not know/was taught that Christ was our Savior, the only way to Heaven. It was just a fact for me. At around 12 I was baptized, being ready to take that public step.
I wonāt ever say Iāve been perfect. Iāve fallen away from church, became worldly, sinned when I knew better. I rededicated my life to God when I went to college and got back into church and learning my faith.
Came out of college, fell away again. Met DH, reattended a small church together, was married in my home church. Fell away again.
Had our son. Talked about it. Finally committed to trying a church Dh picked. Perfect! (at least for us). We love it there. Sound Biblical preaching and teaching. Our pastor is very āblack and whiteā about sin/right and wrong.
During all those āawayā years, I never stopped believing in Him, but I surely didnāt live my belief.
So it wasnāt anything I did, but all Him and His grace that brought me where I am today.
Thank you, Father that you actually WANT us back, and keep on calling and calling us to bring us back to You!
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Rivii
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I came to be thankful for all of the blessings God granted me: my life, health, family, friends, many more. I feel fortunate to have been raised and educated in Catholic environments. In my early teens, I never felt so engulfed in His love before. I figured, then and there, that I would commit to being a good and proper child of God ā in my case, as a Catholic 
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PetiteFoi
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I had come to a place where I knew there was more to life than just the material.
And I knew I was a person that needed saving - I felt myself drowning and in an attempt to save myself I clung to many things that never brought me any sense of peace or salvation until I finally gave my heart and my life, over to Christ.
Only then was I able to be a peace within myself.
~PetiteFoi
And I knew I was a person that needed saving - I felt myself drowning and in an attempt to save myself I clung to many things that never brought me any sense of peace or salvation until I finally gave my heart and my life, over to Christ.
Only then was I able to be a peace within myself.
~PetiteFoi
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marlap2
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Because He called me, and I answered.
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TwinMommy
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I was a Buddhist and started feeling that something was very wrong with it and that led me a search and I was guided to the Lord.
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JimR-OCDS
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For myself, although I was raised Catholic and attended Catholic Schools, by age 18 I rejected Christianity.
However, after doing my tour in the Marines, getting married and having our first child, things were not right in my life. The world seemed dark, so to speak. After watching TV Evangelist, Oral Roberts and doing what he suggested, pick up a Bible and read it, I decided that there had to be more and if Jesus was real, the only way to know was to go to him, and ask him to prove himself. I began to believe, but still had doubts to the point of having great anxiety about whether Jesus was real or not. So, the only way to have faith is to go to the source of faith, Jesus Christ, One sleepless night after tossing and turning, I prayed from the depth of my being, asking Jesus to come into my life. I surrendered all of my ideas and misplace beliefs to him. I promised to follow him, if only he would give me faith to do so. Suddenly, I was filled with a great light, from a being. This being gave me a sense of love, joy and all the sins I had committed over my life were erased, gone. I knew that this being was Jesus. After the experience I was left with so much love and joy, I wanted to go out into the streets and shout to everyone about the reality of Jesus Christ and how He was the source to transform humans into what God had in mind when he created us.
It turns out that my wife went through a similar experience the next morning while I was at work and before I had shared my experience.
Anyway, we gave our lives to Jesus Christ, returned to the Church and professed vows as Secular Order Discalced Carmelites, OCDS.
Our faith experience happened 37 years ago, and we never looked back.
I later came to learn through the Church, that faith is Godā;s revelation of himself to us, however that may happen.
Religion, is our response to that faith.
Jim
However, after doing my tour in the Marines, getting married and having our first child, things were not right in my life. The world seemed dark, so to speak. After watching TV Evangelist, Oral Roberts and doing what he suggested, pick up a Bible and read it, I decided that there had to be more and if Jesus was real, the only way to know was to go to him, and ask him to prove himself. I began to believe, but still had doubts to the point of having great anxiety about whether Jesus was real or not. So, the only way to have faith is to go to the source of faith, Jesus Christ, One sleepless night after tossing and turning, I prayed from the depth of my being, asking Jesus to come into my life. I surrendered all of my ideas and misplace beliefs to him. I promised to follow him, if only he would give me faith to do so. Suddenly, I was filled with a great light, from a being. This being gave me a sense of love, joy and all the sins I had committed over my life were erased, gone. I knew that this being was Jesus. After the experience I was left with so much love and joy, I wanted to go out into the streets and shout to everyone about the reality of Jesus Christ and how He was the source to transform humans into what God had in mind when he created us.
It turns out that my wife went through a similar experience the next morning while I was at work and before I had shared my experience.
Anyway, we gave our lives to Jesus Christ, returned to the Church and professed vows as Secular Order Discalced Carmelites, OCDS.
Our faith experience happened 37 years ago, and we never looked back.
I later came to learn through the Church, that faith is Godā;s revelation of himself to us, however that may happen.
Religion, is our response to that faith.
Jim
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