Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: kday@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Day) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: How did you become a Christian? Message-ID: Date: 6 Aug 90 01:08:27 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD Lines: 40 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu ** this is the second shot at posting in case this looks like a ** repeat In article cedric@fuzzy.corp.sun.com (Cedric Chin) writes: >I'm curious and would like to know how you became a Christian -- or >what's keeping you from becoming one. > I was raised in a Methodist church. There I grew believing in God, though I really didn't know what to do about it. I just knew there was a God, that Jesus was the Son of God and that we should do what he wants. Near the end of my senior year of High School I started dating a girl that went to a Southern Baptist church. I went to services with her, but, just like I did at my church, never really listened to what was being said. That fall her youth group was planning on going on a retreat. They invited me along to play guitar. That evening they all sang a song where each verse mentioned a day of the week and you were supposed to stand on the day you got saved. I didn't have a day. Later that evening we were having a devotional time. The leader played a record with a song that said, "The train's about ready to leave. Do you have your ticket?" No one had ever told me how to accept Christ, but, at that moment, I knew I didn't have that ticket and I knew I wanted it. I bowed my head and recieved Jesus into my life. That was 17 years ago and the memory of how God touched my life that night is as brilliant as it ever was. People say there isn't a God. To them I say, having never met him, you probably would say that. Having met him, having felt his hand in my life, I know there is a God. I also know that he sent Jesus to show us the ultimate in love by giving his life so we can live. If you've read this and you have doubts as to Gods existence, ask him to reveal himself to you. He will, because he loves you like no person ever could. No matter what you've done or how you may have turned your back on him in the past, he still loves you and is willing to meet you where you are, today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog." -Joussenel ------------------------------------------------------------------------