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To: daniel1212

You stayed in the church for 6 years after you were baptized?


753 posted on 08/29/2013 9:47:54 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
You stayed in the church for 6 years after you were baptized?

No; i was "baptized" that is, sprinkled with water as an infant unable to repent or believer as per the Scriptural requirements, (Acts 2:28; 8:36,37) by my uncle, one of two uncles who were RC priests, and sincerely believed in God and was raised very devoutly. But there was no real relationship, and later i fell away after i left home, and basically worked and partied for some years.

But i was convicted later of my sins and need for God due to the emptiness in my soul, as i had never known God, and by the conviction of judgment coming. Which finally resulted in deep repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ in confession, with evangelical preaching on the radio (i was a truck driver) soon helping me to place all my faith on Christ.

Attitudes changed that i did not expect to change and even nature seemed new to me, and i wanted to serve God. Thus i served as a lector and CCd teacher, while also trying to speak to others of conversion and "this life," though few in the RC church were interested or could understand the profound change i humbly found.

Looking for life i went to RC charismatic meetings, which were an improvement, if marginalized by the hierarchy, but they were far what i saw in Scripture of a church eager to share the gospel, and from the life giving preaching i heard by evangelical ministers.

But i still stayed while seeking to tell others of Christ and stand for righteousness as the Lord convicted me to do, though it was basically the Lord and me. But when i first sincerely prayed to God that if it was His will to go to a different church then He would show me, then the next day He answered that, and (was also baptized later) has abundantly confirmed that move in the years since.

Not that i think i have arrived, and if anything i became far more conscious of my failings after conversion, and today am grieved my attitudes of my heart when they are not right, or actions, and know of His chastisement for such, but Christ is real and works in my and thru me, by His grace and to His glory.

823 posted on 08/29/2013 1:38:15 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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