Why Did You Become A Christian?

[RushMAN]

Hmm really?? That's interesting. I didn't know that.

It was good to find someone else who just was a Christian like me. I always thought I was alone in that I had no grand experience, no turmoil I needed help with. One day I just knew and that was that as they say

 

[Mark Quayle]

Kind of like C.S. Lewis who went on to the bus an atheist and came off the bus a Christian

I wish I could write like CS Lewis. Back before the day of word processors, those guys had huge, clear, minds. Read John Owen some time, when you get a chance.

 

[HappyHope]

I had a devastating event in my life that brought me so low I cried out to Him ... and He answered. Lifted me up out of a painful experience and have been walking with Him ever since. I was numb and dead inside, lost and broken and He lifted me up. Thank you Jesus! Amen.

This touched my heart. I can relate. I grew up numb in an unhealthy family situation. Emotionally it was like I knew something was missing. It took years of being a Christian to thaw around people. God was the only one who could cut through to me for a long time. I relished those feelings and clung to him tightly. Praise Him for lifting so many of us up!

 

[2PhiloVoid]

For me it was because I made too much of a mess that I couldn't clean up by myself,.. so when Jesus rang my doorbell and was standing there right in front of me with a mop and a broomstick in His hands what could I do but let Him in?

That's an awesome OP question, April! Remembering back to the 1980's, for me Christianity was a source of new meaning. It flooded my life with a surreal sense of hope and began to help me gain some direction in coping with family problems. It didn't stop with that and I've since learned quite a bit more, but it helped inspire me to see and learn about the world so I could slowly handle it better, with Jesus being the Grand Director ...

 

[sometimesthewolf]

To escape hell.

 

[April_Rose]

To escape hell.

That's a good reason but it shouldn't be your only reason.

 

[sometimesthewolf]

That's a good reason but it shouldn't be your only reason.

Maybe. Still waiting on my life-altering epiphany and supposed deliverance of all sins.

 

[Anthony2019]

In my case, it wasn't me that found God, it was Him that found me.
I was effectively orphaned as a child and grew up in a children's home. I always found myself crying out to God for his help and he never let me down.
I attended Sunday school and learned about Jesus. Although God had been working through my life in a big way, it wasn't until my late teens until I fully came to the faith. It was when I went to university.
I read a book about someone's personal testimony of what Jesus had done in their lives and one evening it was as if my eyes were opened. Jesus wasn't just a story in the Bible, He was real and for the first time in my life, I had met Him. I felt God touch me in such a deep way - I remember dancing around the room completely filled with joy.
The next few months were the hardest times of my life. I had gone home from university and the Christians I knew on campus were no longer around to talk to. During the vacation, there was no Facebook, no mobile phones, no internet. I was alone. My prayer life became a struggle and I began to believe that God had abandoned me. I thought we only got one chance and that I had blown it. I went through depression and despair that lasted for many weeks. I was tormented day and night and had no rest. I became very ill through it all. One evening, I returned home and literally fell prostrate on the floor pleading with God to help me. I was pounding the floor for a very long time. When I got up, I felt the presence of God in a powerful way. My fear had totally gone. I felt I had been released from a prison - I was totally free. And I felt as if I was totally surrounded and bathed in love. I slept so well that night and woke up totally refreshed, confident and full of joy that lasted for a very long time.

 

[Sunshinee777]

More about "How" than "Why". For me it was similar thing what Agallagher said there. I was curious about Jesus, The Word. I started reading bible and it touched me deeply and I just cried. It was about 5 years ago. I don´t know, I think it was Holy Spirit leading me that day to those verses. When I was child, I believed in God so it wasn´t something totally new for me. But I didn´t really understand or knew about Jesus in a deep level back then, I didn´t have personal relationship with Jesus when I was a child. So for me there was many many dark years without faith and thank God and His patience, Mercy towards me I let Jesus have me completely. Oh the happy endings