How did you come to know Christ?

I believe that the word your testimony is the spark to God's flame.
So, feel free to use this discussion group as an opportunity to share your experience with coming to know the True, Living, and Incredible God.
May it be an encouragement to the saved and unsaved.

God bless,
~AlyAndCate

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Permalink Reply by Aly And Cate (Two headed AlyCat) on July 19, 2010 at 2:44pm

That's cool.
My Grandpa's a Reverend

John Stratman (Johnny Moblin) said:

My dad's a Reverend, so it's sort of obvious how I became Christian. Not much to tell. I have been one almost literally my whole life!

Permalink Reply by Gretta E.(Girly Chewbactopus) on August 22, 2010 at 4:37pm

I am an Ex-Hypocrite.
I was raised in a church, to the best of my mom's ability. What I didn't know at a young age was that I had also been raised in a home with addiction, and alcoholism. My dad's an emotionally abusive alcoholic. My sister for about the pst three years had been a drug addict and an alcoholic. My whole childhood was miserable. Sure, I had a nice house, and my mom bought me almost anything, but that was pretty much the only love I got. I had spent my whole "age of accountability" trying to save everyone in my family. I wanted to be the one who fixed our family, when all I was doing was ruining myself. I felt this immense failure, when what I had been trying to accomplish in the first place was completely out of my control. You can't fail at something impossible. I tore myself down, and watched my mother tear herself down, and I had no self-worth. I was miserable, and thought that nothing would ever change. But all of a sudden, God just called me to know him and love him. I got invited to a Revolve Tour event, and I went not knowing what it was at all. I went and at first I couldn't stand it; why would I care about hearing about God? He hadn't helped me out in my life, and I didn't even know whether he exists or not! But it was that day, that I realized that Christianity isn't just a religion, it's a RELATONSHIP. God wants your heart, mind, body and soul. He shouldn't just be an afterthough, but you should ask him to blind you with his light, so that he is all you see. There's a personal Savior, whose name is Jesus Christ! He wants to know everything in your life, and he wants to be there for you in everything, Like I said, it was an all-of-sudden thing, or it felt like it; it happened over the course of a couple months. After my first experience with God, I was on my "Jesus Buzz". I came down from that, and pretty much forgot and walked away again. When you first come to Christ is when Satan attacks your heart the hardest. But, I went to a weekend camp, and I came back to God. Even though it was a struggle, since that time in my life, I have become more and more in tune with the Lord. My sister, through God's grace, went to Alcoholics Anonymous, and that was about four months ago. Since then we've both been going regularly to counseling, and we're working on getting my mom to go. God has called us out of this dark and evil place to be his blind followers, and slaves to rightousness. I am a new creature through The Son of God, and he is still shaping me into his faithful servant, and he will continue to for my whole life, and yours! Haha, sorry if this was too long, but I hope it was a blessing to you!(: