Yes the LORD YESHUA appeared to me in a dream, and called me to follow him at 35.
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Christ found/saved me in 1993 at age 41.
I went from a strong Catholic to a hedonsistic/Atheist lifestyle for 15 years from age 18 to 33, now back to Christianity.
I have some lapses now and then but going in the right direction.
I went from a Catholic Christian to a non-Catholic Christian as a teen but was always a Christian.
I didn’t know Jesus until I got married at 33. My wife was the one who introduced us. I knew she was a Holy-Roller when I married her, but she never forced me to go to church. She just got up and went every Sunday and then to her church groups through the week. She only asked that I keep the cursing and drinking to a minimum (I had been on active duty for 15 years by the time we married).
My last deployment was a tough one. Not only did I leave her with two littles, but that deployment was a rough.
I started going to church with her and the kids when I got home. Can’t explain it, but it felt like I was trespassing.
At one point the Pastor started talking about sin and how Jesus paid the price for it, but as humans we have a hard time letting it go, so he had us write our deepest darkest stuff on a 4 x 8 card and then come up to the front of the church. He had the prayer team up there and we prayed and then that card, with all that hurt and embarrassment, went right into an industrial shredder.
It was a glorious experience and it took a ton of weight off my shoulders. I gave my life to Jesus right then and there and was baptized about two weeks later.
Loving everyday!
I became a Christian in college (1980). Not sure if you consider that an adult conversion. I was raised in a very liberal protestant denomination and assumed I was a Christian, so I joined a Christian fellowship group on campus at the beginning of my freshman year. I very quickly noticed a huge difference between these people and the people I grew up with in the church my family attended. I realized that I really didn’t even believe in God. I started meeting with the person who ran the group and started asking lots of questions. I read Josh McDowell and CS Lewis and other Christian apologists who were popular at the time. At some point in the middle of all that God tugged on my heart and I gave my life to Him.
Raised Roman Catholic.
Left in 1995.
Don’t get caught up in legalism or denominations.
Believe and be Saved!
Romans 10:9-13
John 6:29
Acts 16:31
Mark 16:16
As with many, a personal crises brought me back to God and Christ.
For whatever reason, 40 years seems almost a biblical theme...
Christ was invited into my heart at around 22 years of age.
I actually both reasoned and empirically tested myself back to Christianity / Catholicism.
I learned the wages of sin are indeed death
God’s commandments, through the Bible, are the only path towards a stable society which minimizes human suffering
The natural law is written on the hearts of all people in the same way, even those in Asia and Africa I met who never knew Christianity
If absolute good/God exists, then evil/Satan must exist also. The forces of evil work in the same way now as they did when the Bible was written.
The ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ is a kind of spiritual, philosophical, as well as historical apotheosis of religion. Nothing in human thought or experience has bested this since.
Too long to describe. I will just say this. I am a “work in progress”.
I am a Christian. Just trying to work through a life of pain and forgiveness. My forgiveness and mine of others.
I was saved as a child. Then all hell broke loose.
I gave up on God. He never gave up on me. 😊❤
I was 43 and had an overnight conversion.
That picture you posted, “Mere Christianity” is part of how I came to acknowledge Jesus as my God.
CS Lewis points out in that book that all the mainstream christian denominations agree that Jesus was and is God Himself.
It is historically provable that Jesus died. It is also provable (even His enemies acknowledge) that He died for blasphemy, for claiming to be equal with God Himself.
Once I knew the historical facts behind the thing, coming to a conclusion was a spiritual conversation between me and God the Father.
Jesus promises that it takes only a mustard seed’s worth of faith, and I have seen dozens of people exclaim this faith quite loudly. You just ask them, “was Jesus a good man or a bad man?” They invariably (except once in my case) say that He was a good man.
Then, once a person is confronted with the honest HISTORICAl evidence — that even His enemies acknowledge — of Jesus dying because He claimed equality with God Himself... the faith part is quite minimal.
I recommend the book “Case for Christ” by Lee Stroebel or even the better written “Jesus: God, Ghost or Guru?” by Buell & Hyde. Plus the free-online available book “New Testament Documents, Are They Reliable?” by FF Bruce.
(Psalm 40:2)
I wanted my kids to have good moral values....of course my values were just fine....guess what happened.
The Holy Spirit showed up and I was no longer running the show.
It took a while for that to sink into my thick head...that I am a believer.
That was 21 years ago. I’m 58.
The wife and kids did benefit greatly and, I count it as the most important thing that has ever happened to me.
I was 18.
A couple times in my life I encountered atheists who were very strident and had very convincing arguments. I wasn’t well prepared for those encounters, but eventually built a library of apologetics and studied some of the toughest issues.
As far as I’m concerned, besides creation itself, the greatest evidences are the existence of Israel, and fulfilled prophecy written down years in advance in the Bible.
Christians are Christians and I think whether people are converts or were brought up as Christians and then as adults suddenly realized it was true, we’re all convert Christians.
There are doctrinal differences between the Christian churches, but since the Catholic Church under Bergoglio seems to have abandoned both doctrine and the Faith, what’s left is just those of us who believe in our divine creation and redemption through Jesus Christ (meaning in real-life terms, our salvation from popular culture and our adherence to eternal truths).
We’ll all live together and those who are faithful will probably all die together.
When I was 16 in a church youth group. The youth minister had a very clear presentation on salvation. He took us into Romans and talked about how "Jesus paid the price for sin once for all" and what that meant. Once I understood that Jesus had already paid for my past present and future sins when he hung on that cross. And the offer was extended to whosoever will. All I had to do was claim the promise through prayer and put my trust in Jesus.
That was a no brainer for me. I went home and prayed to claim the promise of salvation with a clearer understanding of how. I don't think my confidence in my salvation has waivered hardly at all since then.
I'm not very disciplined in my Christian walk. I might get chastised for being a disobedient lazy carnal Christian. I almost certainly won't get as much reward in heaven as I could have for the things that I could have but didn't do. But I'm adopted and I will never lose that child of God status. I know whom I have believed and am confident that He is able to keep that which I committed unto Him against that day.
Rom 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Rom 8:38-39 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.