Hello
@Aspzan, I spent my first 10 years in Christ as an Arminian. As time went by/as I grew in my knowledge and understanding of God and the Christian faith, I began to have questions about certain soteriological issues, questions that I found Arminianism simply had no answers for, so I began to look elsewhere, and in doing so, ran across a book by R C Sproul called,
Chosen By God (or the free video series by the same name,
Chosen By God, is also available now). This little book answered all of the nagging questions that had been bothering me for a couple of years, and it caused me to take a brand new, deeper look into a systematic theology (Calvinism) that I had previously written off as heretical.
As far as my denomination is concerned, I'm now part of the Evangelical Free Church of America. Like the SBC
(which followed in our footsteps in this, actually), we take an agnostic position concerning Arminianism and Calvinism at the denominational level, believing that the Bible can be used to support both positions (and that it is up to our individual members and how they believe God is leading them to decide which systematic theology seems better to follow). What this has led to, at least in my church, is productive discussions, rather than endless, heated debates with our brothers and sisters in church who hold the opposing view.
Our elder board and pastorate are also split in this way, with (interestingly) half of each right now being Arminian, and the other half being Calvinist.
Just to be clear, I came to saving faith/became a Christian on 11/2/86, not ten years later when I finally became a Calvinist
Dr. Sproul has the very same story, in fact, though I believe he was even more anti-Calvinist in his early years as a Christian than I was.
God bless you!
--David