Personal Narrative: How Christianity Changed My Life

(1) My conversion experience happened at a relatively young age. I remember I was four years old. I was sitting in our Sunday Evening service and instead of coloring or playing a game I listened to our Pastor's sermon. He was talking about salvation. All I could think about was I didn't want to go to hell! That evening before I went to bed, I asked my parents about heaven, hell, and this man named Jesus I had heard so much about. That night I accepted Christ as my savior!

I became a Christian in 1982 while in high school. I had never attended church prior to Easter 1982. I found something interesting in the whole of the service and decided to read a Bible. The Bible made some sense to me. I had a few questions about some of the stuff that had happened and was given Evidence that Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell. Well that answered most of my questions. I was also given Mere Christianity which answered more questions. I felt convicted by the Holy Spirit and asked G-d to come into my life and forgive me of my sins.

Ever since I was a little girl, my family always pushed Christianity. We would all go to church every Sunday and every big holiday, like Easter or Christmas. All of the grandchildren, including me, had to be in the holiday plays, where we would sing and dance for the whole church. We also were all in the choir, we had practice every Saturday, so that we could sing that Sunday. During the service, when I was younger, I would fall asleep to the preacher preaching. Once I turned 9, I couldn’t do that anymore. It was seen as disrespectful because I was old enough to stay awake during church. I always struggled to stay awake while the preacher preached. As my cousins and I grew older, we started going to church less and less, while the adults still pushed the idea.

Ethics are what I believe are the foundations of human life. These principles guide us as we grow into adults and throughout the course of our lives. I personally believe that in general, everyone was born with the will to be and do good. No one is born to hate or do evil upon themselves or others. I believe they are taught that and grew up around instances that had influenced them.

battle with cancer, I tried killing myself cause I thought that God was punishing me for

I was watching a Christian bishop on the television. He preaching about begin pressured, worrying about things, and living in depression. While I was watching the bishop preaching my sister took the television remote and she changed the channel to watch pretty little liars without asking me if she could change it. I was annoyed at her because she was careless. I raised my voice at her, I asked her why did she changed it. I really wanted to hear what the bishop saying, so I told her I’m suffering from this and maybe she watch it for herself. I asked her if she could please put it back. My mom was sitting next to me and she told my sister to put the channel I was watching back on.

31.50% of the world is Christian. 22.32% of the world is Islamic. 0.20% of the world is Judaic. 13.95% of the world is Hindu. 5.25% of the world is Buddhist. 15.35% of the world is secular, nonreligious, agnostic, or atheist. 10.58% of the world is made up of other religions. I am among the 15.35% of the world that is secular, nonreligious, agnostic, or atheist. However, I identify as a religion called LaVeyan Satanism, which sprung up into our world on Walpurgisnacht in 1966 and was birthed by Anton Szandor LaVey.

The name of my country is Felix.It is located near Austrailia.Many people in my country have been fighting over which country should be ours. As their leader I think we should be in Christianity religion because they read a book about God called the Holy Bible.They have over 2 million followers.They also have this big place where they worship called a church.

Let me start by saying that this trip was great! when you take into account the strides that you would have seen in our kids it truly amazes you. Our youth here stepped up in an environment that they were uncomfortable in. They worked in a thrift store, the thrift store is a building that takes donations and sells the donated items back to the community for a low price to help the people out. Our kids here, along with a group with the Waxahachie congregation, each took a kid, sometimes multiple under their wings and showed them the love and compassion of Christ. All this work that we did was alongside the Compassion 21 group, an inner city ministry group. our last night in Alabama, we had a devotional period in which all of us were asked what we would walk away with.

Ever since I was a young girl, I fell as a victim to cyberbullying and hate. It got to the point where someone made a Facebook page labeled as “I hate Sammi Zhao!!!”, which a majority of my friends and fellow peers marked as “Like”. This occurrence, let down and backstabbing of my friends, led me to suicidal thoughts and depression. I was accustomed to the mindset that every person I met would end up leaving me as time passed by. However, I was fortunate enough to find hope in Christianity, the religion that greatly benefited my journey of overcoming my struggle.

I came to Christ at the young age of four. My parents were Christians and were actively involved in the church. Most of my only memories from when I was between the ages of three and ten were going to church, VBS, and house church. I loved going to those events and having fun and learning about Jesus. The things I learned at church and from others had a major impact on my entire childhood and built me into the person I am now. I was as die hard of a Christian as a child could be. I knew Jesus, I loved Him, and all I can remember was wanting to learn more about Him.

The G.D. changed my life completely, and it didn’t just change mine, it also changed my family’s life. I’ve lost friends and family members because of the great depression, I lost my stock market and crop, I’ve lost everything. I’m really trying here to make a living through this disaster and it’s hard but my whole family depends on me, my kids, my wife everybody. All I want right now is to be able to provide for my family, feed them and not have to struggle as hard. We lost everything and from now on all I can think and hope is that we can move forward from this and make a better living.

It’s truly been an interesting week, and typically it is for me. Never a dull moment when you’re on the move sixteen hours a day and always doing something. I’ve had many opportunities to share bits of what I believe to be true and know to be right, as well as information about the gospel with my customers as I go door-to-door selling Dish TV (Network). It’s amazing how in the simplest conversation so many things can come up and so many truths can be shared. For example, as a missionary, you have a goal in mind to share the gospel and to teach with the power and authority given to you by God and his Prophets which he has called. Yet, as a return mission who attends Brigham Young University – Idaho, I have found it very hard to share my testimony

Christ has changed my life. Christ in Youth or CIY is a large organization that has multiple events around the United States to spread love and knowledge about Jesus. It was the summer of 2014 and church camp was located in Macomb Illinois. I some of my friends and a couple of youth sponsors had pushed me to go and I thought it would be something different. While I was there I was led and realized the I was loved and Jesus cared for me. On the way back I started to think about how my life is going to change with the decision that I made to follow Jesus. Throughout my years before CIY I had thought about what life has to offer and what the true meaning or goal of it is. Jesus gave me meaning to life for and a goal to strive for. Changing the

My journey with God started in February of 1993, when I went to a ladies’ conference in Columbus, Texas. It was while the speaker was explaining that she knew there were some of us out in the audience, who felt guilty about something they had done in their past, and they did not feel that God could forgive them for it. But then she quoted from God’s word; “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, not principalities, no things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:38-39 NASB) The speaker continued on to say that all we need to do is