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Hi, I'm Dave and I'm a sinner

dmart

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Well as you know my name is Dave, David if it please you, I asked God to come into my heart at age 9, I am currently 22. When I was saved I was going to church sunday's and wednesday's, the school I went to was at my church, my family was and still is a strong christian family, and all my friends were all christians. I grew up learning all Christian things, but I never practiced it in my relationship with God, I prayed only when I needed help I didn't memorize passages like my friends or read the Bible daily. As I grew up those bad habits took a toll and when I began to be tempted into sin I didn't resist. My hormones led to lust that I quenched, I started cheating in class, I lied, I had a bad attitude, my relationship with God was all but nonexistant and these same things led me through college where I picked up depression and alcohol abuse. So here I am Dave recent graduate with a B.S. in electrical engineering, living with my parents as I apply into the Navy. I have recently come back to Christ(because He never left me) my depression and alcohol abuse have ended, and God is helping me over power those other faults(lust is a toughy.) So here I have a decent background in the Bible and Christ, but I am immature in my faith trying to figure out what God wants me to do, struggling to find what He has in store for me. I am looking forward to reading and partaking in the discusions on this board I think it will help my growth with Christ, pray for me.

- Dave
 

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Hello Dave and welcome to the forums. Thanks for sharing with us a little bit about yourself. I pray that God will strengthen your faith in Him more. May He give you a lot of peace and patience in your walk with Him.
Enjoy your time here.
God bless you! :wave:
 
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Well as you know my name is Dave, David if it please you, I asked God to come into my heart at age 9, I am currently 22. When I was saved I was going to church sunday's and wednesday's, the school I went to was at my church, my family was and still is a strong christian family, and all my friends were all christians. I grew up learning all Christian things, but I never practiced it in my relationship with God, I prayed only when I needed help I didn't memorize passages like my friends or read the Bible daily. As I grew up those bad habits took a toll and when I began to be tempted into sin I didn't resist. My hormones led to lust that I quenched, I started cheating in class, I lied, I had a bad attitude, my relationship with God was all but nonexistant and these same things led me through college where I picked up depression and alcohol abuse. So here I am Dave recent graduate with a B.S. in electrical engineering, living with my parents as I apply into the Navy. I have recently come back to Christ(because He never left me) my depression and alcohol abuse have ended, and God is helping me over power those other faults(lust is a toughy.) So here I have a decent background in the Bible and Christ, but I am immature in my faith trying to figure out what God wants me to do, struggling to find what He has in store for me. I am looking forward to reading and partaking in the discusions on this board I think it will help my growth with Christ, pray for me.

- Dave

Glad to have you here and looking forward to your posts!!!
You're in my prayers, too.

Cardinal Newman:crossrc::cool::crossrc:

This may be irrelevant to this intro but I felt like addressing this widespread misconception. One thing that many of my non-Catholic Christian friends believe is the claim that Catholics believe in a notion that faith + works= salvation; which we don't believe. I will assume though that you already knew that we don't and never have believed that works can save us. For that notion itself is quite unbiblical.
 
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I have to admit when it comes to the Catholic faith I know very little about it. I grew up in a Baptist church and I've only been to a Catholic church service when I was very little so what I experienced then to me felt pretty weird, but as long as Catholics believe that we are saved by grace through faith then your good with me.

Thank you all for your welcomes it is nice to have a good Christian base than I can always come back to, it is nice for asking questions that I may not ask anywhere else because I really don't have personal Christian friends to talk about my faith.
 
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