A
AlabamaScout
Guest
I got saved the Sunday after an easter after seeing the Passion and celebrating Easter. How were you saved? Share your stories with us.
-
Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
S
solarwave
Guest
Isn't that an 18? 
Anyway I wanna see that one day.
My story isn't that amazing. I was born into a Christian family and when I moved churches when I was 12/13 I was baptised in the Holy Spirit and got the gift of tongues. I then moved churches (to my current one) which grew me as a person and I was baptised in water at 15. I am lucky enough to see God at work through out my life and to have seen the spiritual gifts like prophecy and healing.
Anyway I wanna see that one day.
My story isn't that amazing. I was born into a Christian family and when I moved churches when I was 12/13 I was baptised in the Holy Spirit and got the gift of tongues. I then moved churches (to my current one) which grew me as a person and I was baptised in water at 15. I am lucky enough to see God at work through out my life and to have seen the spiritual gifts like prophecy and healing.
Upvote
0
kevlite2020
rawr means I love you in dinosaur!
MOD HAT ON
This thread has gone through a major cleanup. If you are missing a post, that's why. Sorry for the inconvenience. Happy posting!
MOD HAT OFF
This thread has gone through a major cleanup. If you are missing a post, that's why. Sorry for the inconvenience. Happy posting!
MOD HAT OFF
Upvote
0
Time for a news start for the thread? I don't know what happened last time - I wasn't around back then - but I think people in general might have calmed down a bit. Well anyways, I got saved when I was fifteen. I already belonged to my current church, but I wasn't generally all too interested then... I just didn't have an opinion really.
What happened then was that I went to this camp - my parents made me since it's what you do here - where they taught me the core christian doctrines. We also had older christian teens there who'd be examples of christians for us and I realized that there had to be something about it since they were so different from anyone I'd ever met that I wanted to try it out LOL. I was at a point in my life where I had nothing to loose, so I just let go and started getting more into it and believed. That was awesome, and when I got confirmed after the camp, I got to take communion for the first time which was even more awesome! 
Since then I've been studying christianity more and more and trying to get closer to God.
What happened then was that I went to this camp - my parents made me since it's what you do here - where they taught me the core christian doctrines. We also had older christian teens there who'd be examples of christians for us and I realized that there had to be something about it since they were so different from anyone I'd ever met that I wanted to try it out LOL. I was at a point in my life where I had nothing to loose, so I just let go and started getting more into it and believed.
That was awesome, and when I got confirmed after the camp, I got to take communion for the first time which was even more awesome! Since then I've been studying christianity more and more and trying to get closer to God.
Upvote
0
bklatinarab92
Lover of God
my story isnt so short but i love to share! so i was raised Catholic, bored blah, around 10 i went to a lutheran church like a youth thing.. and i went to a youth group but it was a friday thing the rest of life was worldly. in high school i started drinking smoking partys girls... and in 2010 i was in my senior year and my lifestyle was horrible.My roommate was my partner in crime, i woke up to get high, got high to sleep. and i almost as sexually immoral as sodom and gommorah. i had 3 months till i was supposed to Graduate... i was missing 16 classes. well.. in 2010 on my birthday there was a retreat! and i used to go cuz i wanted to try and get girls. but that year something was different i actually listened to the message, and i found a random bible! i started to read proverbs and revelations and came home and found out my Roomie tryed to kill himself! :o The news shocked me and my life started to crumble. i kept reading although i stood in my same lifestyle, and i was listening to Hip-Hop and i started listening to the lyrics and it opened my eyes
and one day after youth group i went out and graffited and smoked weed. i came home and was bored so i opened up to 2 thes. and i was so high i couldnt focus. it took me 3 times to read the first chapt. but the third time i didnt lift my eyes up until the end of it and when i finished i looked up and like a movie i was sober:o i felt the holy spirit sober me up like a cannon but as gentle as butterflys.. theres so much details but i rather not bore yall! =] if anyone isnt sure about christ then talk to me ive been through alot! i mean i seen so much! idk why but gods called me i hope i dont let him down love you all! (yall) God peace be in your hearts! Glory to God.
so i was raised Catholic, bored blah, around 10 i went to a lutheran church like a youth thing.. and i went to a youth group but it was a friday thing the rest of life was worldly. in high school i started drinking smoking partys girls... and in 2010 i was in my senior year and my lifestyle was horrible.My roommate was my partner in crime, i woke up to get high, got high to sleep. and i almost as sexually immoral as sodom and gommorah. i had 3 months till i was supposed to Graduate... i was missing 16 classes. well.. in 2010 on my birthday there was a retreat! and i used to go cuz i wanted to try and get girls. but that year something was different i actually listened to the message, and i found a random bible! i started to read proverbs and revelations and came home and found out my Roomie tryed to kill himself! :o The news shocked me and my life started to crumble. i kept reading although i stood in my same lifestyle, and i was listening to Hip-Hop and i started listening to the lyrics and it opened my eyes and one day after youth group i went out and graffited and smoked weed. i came home and was bored so i opened up to 2 thes. and i was so high i couldnt focus. it took me 3 times to read the first chapt. but the third time i didnt lift my eyes up until the end of it and when i finished i looked up and like a movie i was sober:o i felt the holy spirit sober me up like a cannon but as gentle as butterflys.. theres so much details but i rather not bore yall! =] if anyone isnt sure about christ then talk to me ive been through alot! i mean i seen so much! idk why but gods called me i hope i dont let him down love you all! (yall) God peace be in your hearts! Glory to God.
Upvote
0
I was born in a Christian family so I had to go to Church and that put a bad attitude toward church which wasn't good, because it was I had to go not I want to go because I believe. I still have to go but lately I just have went on a retreat and it was fun but it gave me time to connect with God I became a stronger Christian this Past Weekend and Im looking into become a Missionary or Pastor
I became a stronger Christian this Past Weekend and Im looking into become a Missionary or Pastor
Upvote
0
RipleyCountyChristian
The guy Chuck Norris tries to live up to :)
- Nov 25, 2007
- 6,541
- 1,356
- 32
- Faith
- Christian
- Marital Status
- Single
- Politics
- US-Others
I was raised in a christian home, and learned about Christ and accepted him at an early age...but as I started really going out in the world when I was in my preteen early teen years....the sinful stuff of the world started to infiltrate into my life. My relationships with my family got worse..we started going to church less. Even my parents faith was failing. My mom had heart problems , my dad got prostate cancer....it was a crazy time, those 2 or so years. But we had people praying for us, and both my parents recovered just fine.
When I was 10 or 11, the church I grew up in spilt in two...there was a whole lot of crazy stuff going on. My parents and I moved around from church to church for a while, until we finally settled at the church that spilt off from the one we went too. It was a nice church, very contemporary, a lot of the more affluent, wealthier people went there, and my folks were friends with some of them, but I didn't fit in. It was still a good place though. But, I just don't think that is where the Lord wanted us....but we were so far from God (without even really knowing) in those years that we couldn't tell. My freshmen year(I was 14)....a friend of mine was inviting me to church all the time..but I would tell him I already have a church I go too...but he wouldn't stop asking...after that school year my mom broke her ankle really bad and we weren't able to get out much and go to church....we received so many letters and support from a lot of people, but most of the were from the church I grew up in...not the church we were going to, and that wasn't the first time this kind of thing had happened either. So when sophomore year started back up and we were all healthy, we decided to try going back to the original church, the one I grew up in. It was amazing, we were received so warmly, and we could feel the spirit of the Lord so heavy on the place. Me and my parents all recommitted ourselves to the Lord shortly after and were baptized again. I also got more active with youth activities and finally decided to go to our summer church camp that I could have started going to when I was 8....that first year there...I first felt God calling me to do something...to make a difference...to work for Him....and after that and combined with our youth convention and different events...I accepted God's call on my life to Youth ministry. Since then I have already done multiple sermons for my youth group. And this next full, I am going to a bible college affiliated with my church...I am so excited.
God has done so much in my life........and well I still stumble and fall, but God is love, and forgiveness....and after all he has done for me, what else could I do, but really truly give up my life for him!
When I was 10 or 11, the church I grew up in spilt in two...there was a whole lot of crazy stuff going on. My parents and I moved around from church to church for a while, until we finally settled at the church that spilt off from the one we went too. It was a nice church, very contemporary, a lot of the more affluent, wealthier people went there, and my folks were friends with some of them, but I didn't fit in. It was still a good place though. But, I just don't think that is where the Lord wanted us....but we were so far from God (without even really knowing) in those years that we couldn't tell. My freshmen year(I was 14)....a friend of mine was inviting me to church all the time..but I would tell him I already have a church I go too...but he wouldn't stop asking...after that school year my mom broke her ankle really bad and we weren't able to get out much and go to church....we received so many letters and support from a lot of people, but most of the were from the church I grew up in...not the church we were going to, and that wasn't the first time this kind of thing had happened either. So when sophomore year started back up and we were all healthy, we decided to try going back to the original church, the one I grew up in. It was amazing, we were received so warmly, and we could feel the spirit of the Lord so heavy on the place. Me and my parents all recommitted ourselves to the Lord shortly after and were baptized again. I also got more active with youth activities and finally decided to go to our summer church camp that I could have started going to when I was 8....that first year there...I first felt God calling me to do something...to make a difference...to work for Him....and after that and combined with our youth convention and different events...I accepted God's call on my life to Youth ministry. Since then I have already done multiple sermons for my youth group. And this next full, I am going to a bible college affiliated with my church...I am so excited.
God has done so much in my life........and well I still stumble and fall, but God is love, and forgiveness....and after all he has done for me, what else could I do, but really truly give up my life for him!
Upvote
0
Amazing story, it touched me cause I almost had the exact same experience with my post above, just shortened Im glad God has worked in your life
Im glad God has worked in your life
Upvote
0
A logical thought process. No, seriously. Allow me to explain. Ill keep it short and sweet.
I was born Christian. Around the age of 15 I started questioning, well everything, especially religion. But first i did what most humans are incapable of doing, I began appraoching questions from a completely Objectional view.
I asked the question not "Does God exist?", but rather "Can God exist?". I found it highly likeley for their to be a God. I then analyzed Pascal's wager, which I agree with. I realized it was less risky to join a religion that claims to save your form hell than to join one that claims there is no hell or being an Atheist.
I then evaluated those religions based on basic principles, and credibility of the source.
Chrisitianity fit the bill for both, so I remained Christian. And that's my not-so-spiritual-or-inspiring-tale- of how I was saved. I am 16 now, so be aware it took me roghly a year-and-a-half to make all ym evalutations and conclusions and didnt happen overnight.
I realize that more of this might need to be explained, like the details on my analysis of Pascal's wager or how I came to my somewhat assumative conclusions, so if u have any questions do not be afraid to ask or even critisize me if need be.
I was born Christian. Around the age of 15 I started questioning, well everything, especially religion. But first i did what most humans are incapable of doing, I began appraoching questions from a completely Objectional view.
I asked the question not "Does God exist?", but rather "Can God exist?". I found it highly likeley for their to be a God. I then analyzed Pascal's wager, which I agree with. I realized it was less risky to join a religion that claims to save your form hell than to join one that claims there is no hell or being an Atheist.
I then evaluated those religions based on basic principles, and credibility of the source.
Chrisitianity fit the bill for both, so I remained Christian. And that's my not-so-spiritual-or-inspiring-tale- of how I was saved. I am 16 now, so be aware it took me roghly a year-and-a-half to make all ym evalutations and conclusions and didnt happen overnight.
I realize that more of this might need to be explained, like the details on my analysis of Pascal's wager or how I came to my somewhat assumative conclusions, so if u have any questions do not be afraid to ask or even critisize me if need be.
Upvote
0
bklatinarab92
Lover of God
@ IWANNAROCK thats an interesting story so if you now believe or abide by christianity have you received the holy spirit has it become spiritually clear for you now? or is it still a logical thing?
Upvote
0
Kitty.
Senior Member
- Jun 27, 2010
- 517
- 134
- Faith
- Christian
- Marital Status
- In Relationship
- Politics
- US-Republican
I was about 6 years and I was about to go to sleep and I started wondering where I would go if I died. I knew that I needed to become a Christian so I sat up in bed, prayed and became a Christian, and then went to sleep. Nothing fancy there.
Upvote
0
sarahelizabeth
7-18-12
- Apr 30, 2011
- 12,238
- 1,459
- Faith
- Christian
- Marital Status
- In Relationship
- Politics
- US-Others
With me I never was raised a christian like most people were.. I lived next to a Church and I never really went to it at all and When I was 15 I went to my youth group my Youth Pastor talked about how much being saved being a christian is the best thing ever and i really wanted to be saved.. and i thikn i was saved when i was younger but i don't remember that to tell you the truth but now i serve god and I got the holy ghost not very long ago and it is so hard for me to be a chrsitian to this day.. My family isn't reagloius at all My mom think she is buddism and My siters are athiest it is hard for me.. my grandpa was rasied in a bathipst church but he hated church and still hates it my grandma belives but she hates church..
So i am all alone all the time with church and etc..
So i am all alone all the time with church and etc..
Upvote
0
branchofthevine
Newbie
- May 29, 2011
- 745
- 64
- Faith
- Christian
- Marital Status
- Single
- Politics
- CA-Others
My story isn't very exciting, but I will tell it as honestly as I can.
I grew up where my mom was and it still a hypocrite of a Christian (She is one way in front of all the other believers but another way at home), a Father who never went and never cared, and a Sister who turned Atheist. I myself was like a lot of younger Children and asked Jesus into my heart at 8 or so, and for 8 years I lived in defeat and my life was no different than the world. I honored God with my lips, but my heart was far from him. At 16 God spoke to me with a verse which says "If the Light you think you have is actually Darkness, how Dark it is indeed" and it convicted me that I was never saved to begin with.
I bent down on my knees one Spring night when I was 16 and was saved, and still to this day am being saved from anger, selfishness, pride, from my tongue, from lusts, from all other sorts of sins. Albeit not a steady change, slowly I have been changed by the Holy Spirit from the inside out. I give all the credit and all the Praise to God for this change that he is doing, for he is constantly renewing my mind. Over these past 3 years the proof I have of being a true Child of God is that I am slowly getting rid of all forms of worldliness and attaining (slowly) the same divine nature God himself has (2 Peter 1:4).
Glory be to God, and Praise the Lord.
I grew up where my mom was and it still a hypocrite of a Christian (She is one way in front of all the other believers but another way at home), a Father who never went and never cared, and a Sister who turned Atheist. I myself was like a lot of younger Children and asked Jesus into my heart at 8 or so, and for 8 years I lived in defeat and my life was no different than the world. I honored God with my lips, but my heart was far from him. At 16 God spoke to me with a verse which says "If the Light you think you have is actually Darkness, how Dark it is indeed" and it convicted me that I was never saved to begin with.
I bent down on my knees one Spring night when I was 16 and was saved, and still to this day am being saved from anger, selfishness, pride, from my tongue, from lusts, from all other sorts of sins. Albeit not a steady change, slowly I have been changed by the Holy Spirit from the inside out. I give all the credit and all the Praise to God for this change that he is doing, for he is constantly renewing my mind. Over these past 3 years the proof I have of being a true Child of God is that I am slowly getting rid of all forms of worldliness and attaining (slowly) the same divine nature God himself has (2 Peter 1:4).
Glory be to God, and Praise the Lord.
Upvote
0
