Scripture Art and Various Creative Conceptions Born of Love
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Good morning Erde! Haha the start of my journey would be my birth into a religious family. Um, yeah, it would be a long story
but I do give some of my testimony on page two here in this thread. And I will add this from a previous post found elsewhere:
I was raised in a Roman Catholic family, attended separate schools until high school (only one of my ten siblings opted for the only Catholic high school in our city), but honestly do not recall hearing the gospel message at all during all of those years. In fact, it was partially curiosity about Who Jesus was/is that prompted me to check out the neighbourhood church where the life of Jesus was being shown via the gospel of Luke over two Saturday evenings @ Passover, at the end of my marriage. My life was a pretty big mess then and I was in a lot of emotional pain at the time. I had a profound God encounter in that church, which I walked away from thinking, gee, it's too bad God let me know I was loved and forgiven in a church setting. Ha. I had been trying to escape all that organized religion stuff for years. Fifteen years later I had another Divine intervention a year before my conversion. Now the first encounter had probably gone some distance in saving my life, and I did "treasure in my heart" the knowledge that God loved and forgave me, but I had a huge problem with that God, and thought there must be something else, and I set out trying to discover what that was. Fifteen years later when God once again revealed Himself to me was not so warm and fuzzy. In fact, I was stricken with the fear of God, and other things happened which absolutely terrified me. I rarely tell the details of those things because they are so other worldly. Though I still could not believe in the Biblical God, soon after I met someone who told me Who Jesus was in a way I could understand and accept, and I started going to church... and it was during that time, while attending the Alpha Course, that I realized I finally needed no more convincing of the Truth of God's Word. I became consumed with a burning desire to research and study God's word and share it with others. I attended multiple churches and services and fellowship meetings every week in the early days of my Christian walk. I had always known there was something behind all we could see, and credited God with many things before I actually came to believe in Him and put my faith in His plan for humanity via the shed righteous blood of Jesus Christ. Coming to that place of truly believing was a major turning point in my life and really turned my whole world upside down... in a good way!
My apologies for my tardy reply...
but I do give some of my testimony on page two here in this thread. And I will add this from a previous post found elsewhere:
I was raised in a Roman Catholic family, attended separate schools until high school (only one of my ten siblings opted for the only Catholic high school in our city), but honestly do not recall hearing the gospel message at all during all of those years. In fact, it was partially curiosity about Who Jesus was/is that prompted me to check out the neighbourhood church where the life of Jesus was being shown via the gospel of Luke over two Saturday evenings @ Passover, at the end of my marriage. My life was a pretty big mess then and I was in a lot of emotional pain at the time. I had a profound God encounter in that church, which I walked away from thinking, gee, it's too bad God let me know I was loved and forgiven in a church setting. Ha. I had been trying to escape all that organized religion stuff for years. Fifteen years later I had another Divine intervention a year before my conversion. Now the first encounter had probably gone some distance in saving my life, and I did "treasure in my heart" the knowledge that God loved and forgave me, but I had a huge problem with that God, and thought there must be something else, and I set out trying to discover what that was. Fifteen years later when God once again revealed Himself to me was not so warm and fuzzy. In fact, I was stricken with the fear of God, and other things happened which absolutely terrified me. I rarely tell the details of those things because they are so other worldly. Though I still could not believe in the Biblical God, soon after I met someone who told me Who Jesus was in a way I could understand and accept, and I started going to church... and it was during that time, while attending the Alpha Course, that I realized I finally needed no more convincing of the Truth of God's Word. I became consumed with a burning desire to research and study God's word and share it with others. I attended multiple churches and services and fellowship meetings every week in the early days of my Christian walk. I had always known there was something behind all we could see, and credited God with many things before I actually came to believe in Him and put my faith in His plan for humanity via the shed righteous blood of Jesus Christ. Coming to that place of truly believing was a major turning point in my life and really turned my whole world upside down... in a good way!
My apologies for my tardy reply...
Hey Magenta, please don't apologize. Thank you for sharing your story with me, it gave me an idea of how can things work. I really appreciate it. Please ask questions too, if you have some. Today I will listen to some of that Alpha course during work. Have to start at some point, I guess. How does the intervention feel? How did you know it?