Starise Posted August 29, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 13 Topic Count: 279 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 13,079 Content Per Day: 9.76 Reputation: 13,555 Days Won: 149 Joined: 08/26/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted August 29, 2023 Many of us have stories about how we came to Christ, or rather, how Christ came to us. It wasn't as if when we were all old enough to think about these kinds of things, we all just up and decided to follow Jesus. In fact in many minds He is more like Casper the Friendly Ghost, or a figment of someone's imagination. But at some point we got that " Tap On The Back" and maybe it wasn't necessarily happening like, " Hey It's Me, Jesus, I just wanted to stop by for a little chat." Yet at some point we thought about God and went even further. How would you describe your experience? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOrangeCat Posted August 29, 2023 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 57 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,405 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 1,824 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/24/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted August 29, 2023 Not being old enough to think about these things sums me up pretty well. I was watching the Gospel Bill show as a kid. Didn't really grasp it all at the time but accepting Jesus made sense. Over time my understanding and appreciation grew but IMO you never really stop learning. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starise Posted August 29, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 13 Topic Count: 279 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 13,079 Content Per Day: 9.76 Reputation: 13,555 Days Won: 149 Joined: 08/26/2020 Status: Offline Author Share Posted August 29, 2023 34 minutes ago, AnOrangeCat said: Not being old enough to think about these things sums me up pretty well. I was watching the Gospel Bill show as a kid. Didn't really grasp it all at the time but accepting Jesus made sense. Over time my understanding and appreciation grew but IMO you never really stop learning. Thanks for sharing this, Did you have Christian parents at the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOrangeCat Posted August 29, 2023 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 57 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,405 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 1,824 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/24/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted August 29, 2023 1 hour ago, Starise said: Did you have Christian parents at the time? Yes and no. My parents were Christian in a cultural sense, but this is purely my opinion. It's possible there was some real devotion but they fell off hard into drugs and alcohol and didn't really seem to practice. My mother showed some concern for matters of faith before she died. In practice my grandparents were my parents, and they typically seemed to take things more seriously. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sower Posted August 29, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 14 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 5,251 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5,858 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/09/2009 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted August 29, 2023 2 hours ago, Starise said: How would you describe your experience? Was at a funeral for our neighbors 13 yr old son who had cerebral palsy. The pastor in his sermon to those of us attending said we shouldn't feel sorry for little Jimmy any more, for he was no longer in his wheel chair but out running around heaven with Jesus. Because he was born again, saved, and we needed to be also to go to heaven and not hell. (say what!) That tiny seed of light we received from that faithful old Pastor was planted, later watered and then bloomed. My wife in the back yard, myself at night driving in my bug. We left the god of this world, and became children of our creator. Thank You Jesus. How would you describe your experience? To always be the best steward of the light that saves, by sharing it and passing it on. Faithful to the gospel, the great news. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted August 29, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 952 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,573 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,054 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted August 29, 2023 2 hours ago, Sower said: How would you describe your experience? Not as a tap on the shoulder, that is for sure. It was more like a royal fanny kicking experience; but it got my attention and turned me about, how cool that is. It has led to one adventure after another for some 40 years. Amazing that is the word I find to describe the experience. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starise Posted August 29, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 13 Topic Count: 279 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 13,079 Content Per Day: 9.76 Reputation: 13,555 Days Won: 149 Joined: 08/26/2020 Status: Offline Author Share Posted August 29, 2023 24 minutes ago, Neighbor said: Not as a tap on the shoulder, that is for sure. It was more like a royal fanny kicking experience; but it got my attention and turned me about, how cool that is. It has led to one adventure after another for some 40 years. Amazing that is the word I find to describe the experience. Sometimes I wonder why God doesn't go this route more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted August 29, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 952 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,573 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,054 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted August 29, 2023 3 hours ago, Starise said: Sometimes I wonder why God doesn't go this route more often. Hmm, maybe not enough individuals pray diligently for their own ( loved ones and friends) to be turned about for as long a period of time as is made available to be in prayer. My own forceful turning about was as result of God answering prayer of those that had prayed for me not for hours but decades and also having shared by reading the Bible to me as a young child. While "we" may not live long enough to know the result, God is faithful to answer prayer. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willa Posted August 30, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 68 Topic Count: 186 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 14,242 Content Per Day: 3.33 Reputation: 16,657 Days Won: 30 Joined: 08/14/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted August 30, 2023 God got my attention during a severe thunder storm. The sky was ablaze with lightning strikes. Even the street lights were out. Strong winds were bending giant maple and sycamore trees and leaves swirled 20 feet into the air. "I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed" still brings tears to my eyes causing me to remember that night. As the street lights flickered back on I had asked God, if there is a God, to make the lights go out again so I could again see His power and majesty in His creation, and instantly they were out. Being a hard headed skeptic, this had to occur nearly 20 more times before I conceded that this was beyond the laws of probability and there was indeed a God Who's aware of me, Who heard and answered my prayer. I was around 13 years old at the time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farouk Posted August 30, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,398 Content Per Day: 12.16 Reputation: 3,269 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted August 30, 2023 @Willa I do love that hymn................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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