I've been tossing up whether I should do this for a while but after having a prayer session, I believe that it's important for me to put my testimony in writing. So here it goes.
I was born into a non-Christian family, however my mother did believe there was a God and when I was 7 I started going to church with my mother. As part of this I was enroled in Sunday School. I was a bright child, and always asked questions. Not because I was trying to annoy but because I was genuinely curious. It was my curiousity however that saw me kicked out of Sunday School. Thats right - kicked out of Sunday School. I was so upset that I vowed at a very young age never to go to church again.
I moved a little bit as a child. As I became a teenager I was quiet and what you might call a little bit dorky. I found it hard to make friends, and as a result did anything to find friends.
After school however all this changed dramatically. At 18 I landed a dream job that paid me ridiculous amounts of money for my age. At that age I also discovered a few other things. I discovered I could sing, I discovered that women found me attractive and I discovered that unlike school I was extremely popular. All of a sudden the dorky quiet kid from high school was gone and the arrogant womanising charasmatic version of myself was born. My nights consisted of going out with my work friends, partying and picking up women. The worst thing is I became very good at it.
Eventually however I found a woman that I actually fell in love with. We were engaged to get married, however about 2 months before we were due to tie the knot, we had a nasty break up. This led me to a whole new extreme of my old ways. Every night consisted of picking up different women. Not to long after the breakup with my fiancee however, I discovered she was pregnant. Due to the nastyness of our breakup, there was no chance of our getting back together. So I did the right thing and made sure that she was financially looked after. She had twins. They passed away the same day they were born. I never got to see them. I was understandably distraught. I reached out to my family for support, but they denied that she was pregnant and refused to believe what had happened. This really got to me.
I started searching for something. Unfortunately I found the wrong thing at the wrong time. I got involved with the Raelian Movement. There not a cult but they are a religious group with some "interesting" ideas. After a few months of going to there meetings, I realised that it was not right.
I recovered from my grief and went back to my old ways. For some reason though, I was very anti-church. Sometimes for fun I used to get into conversations with Christians and convince them why they were wrong. Unfortunately this was something I was successful at as well. I became hevially involved in the new age movement. I read tarot cards, did psychic readings and reiki amongst other things.
Then out of nowhere, I lost my licence, my job and went from hero to zero. I was still popular, however I didn't have the money I used to, and without a licence I wasnt going to get a job that could provide the same money.
My qualifications did however help me get a decent job. While there, one of the people I worked with told me he new a friend of mine. This was one of my friends who I used to party with who had dropped of the scene when he became a Christian. The guy I worked with told me that my friend went to church with him, and that I should go.
I decided I'd go for a laugh. Church wasnt for me. I mean I used to convince Christians why there was no God. I was into the new age movement. And there were women to be chased.
I went for a stir-up and to say hi to my old mate. That night the pastor spoke about walls and breaking them. About how God doesn't care who you are, what you've got. He just cares about you. Bang!! All of a sudden I was convicted. That night I got saved. This was a year ago.
It was strange going from someone who lived the typical anti-Christian lifestyle to becoming a Christian. But it's the greatest thing that has happened to me. I'm now a member of the worship team and I'm loving life.
If you ever see someone out there who you believe cannot be saved, try to save them. Because if it hadn't been for one person just asking the question, then my eternity would be very different from the one I have now.
God Bless You All
Aussie4God
I was born into a non-Christian family, however my mother did believe there was a God and when I was 7 I started going to church with my mother. As part of this I was enroled in Sunday School. I was a bright child, and always asked questions. Not because I was trying to annoy but because I was genuinely curious. It was my curiousity however that saw me kicked out of Sunday School. Thats right - kicked out of Sunday School. I was so upset that I vowed at a very young age never to go to church again.
I moved a little bit as a child. As I became a teenager I was quiet and what you might call a little bit dorky. I found it hard to make friends, and as a result did anything to find friends.
After school however all this changed dramatically. At 18 I landed a dream job that paid me ridiculous amounts of money for my age. At that age I also discovered a few other things. I discovered I could sing, I discovered that women found me attractive and I discovered that unlike school I was extremely popular. All of a sudden the dorky quiet kid from high school was gone and the arrogant womanising charasmatic version of myself was born. My nights consisted of going out with my work friends, partying and picking up women. The worst thing is I became very good at it.
Eventually however I found a woman that I actually fell in love with. We were engaged to get married, however about 2 months before we were due to tie the knot, we had a nasty break up. This led me to a whole new extreme of my old ways. Every night consisted of picking up different women. Not to long after the breakup with my fiancee however, I discovered she was pregnant. Due to the nastyness of our breakup, there was no chance of our getting back together. So I did the right thing and made sure that she was financially looked after. She had twins. They passed away the same day they were born. I never got to see them. I was understandably distraught. I reached out to my family for support, but they denied that she was pregnant and refused to believe what had happened. This really got to me.
I started searching for something. Unfortunately I found the wrong thing at the wrong time. I got involved with the Raelian Movement. There not a cult but they are a religious group with some "interesting" ideas. After a few months of going to there meetings, I realised that it was not right.
I recovered from my grief and went back to my old ways. For some reason though, I was very anti-church. Sometimes for fun I used to get into conversations with Christians and convince them why they were wrong. Unfortunately this was something I was successful at as well. I became hevially involved in the new age movement. I read tarot cards, did psychic readings and reiki amongst other things.
Then out of nowhere, I lost my licence, my job and went from hero to zero. I was still popular, however I didn't have the money I used to, and without a licence I wasnt going to get a job that could provide the same money.
My qualifications did however help me get a decent job. While there, one of the people I worked with told me he new a friend of mine. This was one of my friends who I used to party with who had dropped of the scene when he became a Christian. The guy I worked with told me that my friend went to church with him, and that I should go.
I decided I'd go for a laugh. Church wasnt for me. I mean I used to convince Christians why there was no God. I was into the new age movement. And there were women to be chased.
I went for a stir-up and to say hi to my old mate. That night the pastor spoke about walls and breaking them. About how God doesn't care who you are, what you've got. He just cares about you. Bang!! All of a sudden I was convicted. That night I got saved. This was a year ago.
It was strange going from someone who lived the typical anti-Christian lifestyle to becoming a Christian. But it's the greatest thing that has happened to me. I'm now a member of the worship team and I'm loving life.
If you ever see someone out there who you believe cannot be saved, try to save them. Because if it hadn't been for one person just asking the question, then my eternity would be very different from the one I have now.
God Bless You All
Aussie4God
