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Hello,
I'm Jim, feel free to call me Jimbo. I'm going to try to tell my story, and voice my concerns, without rambling too much. As I type that I realize that I still will probably subject you all to the rambling .
I am almost 30 years old, married, and have 3 kids. I was baptised Catholic when I was a baby even though neither of my parents are very religious. Both my grandparents were very religious. My Grandmother was raised Catholic and my Grandfather was Mennonite converted to Catholicism. My parents really never discussed religion with us but my Grandparents always taught us the importance of God and the importance of morality. They never really got much into scripture.
I really never put much thought into God during my late teens/early 20's. I pretty much lived a party lifestyle, drinking, girls and some drugs. I ran the streets. I stole, fought, and really didn't give much thought to anybody but myself and my close friends. This ended up landing me in jail for about a year and a half.
After I got out of jail I met up with one of my buddies and we both moved out of state. We both just went right back to our old lifestyle. During this I met the woman that I would eventually marry. Not long into our relationship she got pregnant with my first son. Instantly things changed. I got a job, moved into my own place, and more or less told my 'friends' where they could go. I also started exploring God again.
For the next several years I lived a pretty good life even though I was questioning religion. I had two more kids and eventually married my wife.
As a family we've tried out several churches. We tried a Catholic, a Baptist, a Pentecostal, and a United Methodist. All of those were good churches with good people but none of them were the right church for me for various different reasons. Finally through several trials God finally directed us to Covenant Evangelical Methodist Church. I don't know if God directs us to different churches to guide us on our individual paths or what the case is but I know for a fact that this is the church for me.
Even though I've found my home I'm still stuck with a lot of questions, problems, issues, and doubt. There are a lot of people at my church that are more than willing to help but I still can't bring myself to ask them a lot of times and that's what led me here. I'm hoping that with the anonymity of the internet I can overcome some of my shame and embarrassment and get some guidance to completely understanding what God wants from me and what I should do to continue my journey.
I hope you all read through this and while I tried to keep it short it doesn't seem to of worked very well. I hope it was a good read just the same.
I'm Jim, feel free to call me Jimbo. I'm going to try to tell my story, and voice my concerns, without rambling too much. As I type that I realize that I still will probably subject you all to the rambling .
I am almost 30 years old, married, and have 3 kids. I was baptised Catholic when I was a baby even though neither of my parents are very religious. Both my grandparents were very religious. My Grandmother was raised Catholic and my Grandfather was Mennonite converted to Catholicism. My parents really never discussed religion with us but my Grandparents always taught us the importance of God and the importance of morality. They never really got much into scripture.
I really never put much thought into God during my late teens/early 20's. I pretty much lived a party lifestyle, drinking, girls and some drugs. I ran the streets. I stole, fought, and really didn't give much thought to anybody but myself and my close friends. This ended up landing me in jail for about a year and a half.
After I got out of jail I met up with one of my buddies and we both moved out of state. We both just went right back to our old lifestyle. During this I met the woman that I would eventually marry. Not long into our relationship she got pregnant with my first son. Instantly things changed. I got a job, moved into my own place, and more or less told my 'friends' where they could go. I also started exploring God again.
For the next several years I lived a pretty good life even though I was questioning religion. I had two more kids and eventually married my wife.
As a family we've tried out several churches. We tried a Catholic, a Baptist, a Pentecostal, and a United Methodist. All of those were good churches with good people but none of them were the right church for me for various different reasons. Finally through several trials God finally directed us to Covenant Evangelical Methodist Church. I don't know if God directs us to different churches to guide us on our individual paths or what the case is but I know for a fact that this is the church for me.
Even though I've found my home I'm still stuck with a lot of questions, problems, issues, and doubt. There are a lot of people at my church that are more than willing to help but I still can't bring myself to ask them a lot of times and that's what led me here. I'm hoping that with the anonymity of the internet I can overcome some of my shame and embarrassment and get some guidance to completely understanding what God wants from me and what I should do to continue my journey.
I hope you all read through this and while I tried to keep it short it doesn't seem to of worked very well. I hope it was a good read just the same.
