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Jayne Manfredi's avatar

It’s such a hard subject to talk about outside a faith context. You have to grapple with all the (mostly) negative perceptions people have about believers. Then I see how some people of faith behave publicly and I cringe. I grappled with it hard when I became a Christian in my thirties from an entirely atheist position and background. Through grappling cane freedom. Stay courageous Grace!

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Esther's avatar

Thank you for sharing Grace. I too did not talk about God much when I was in school. I think I asked my friends once if they were Christian and they claimed to be just because their parents or grandparents claimed to be Christian. They had never set foot in a church or read a bible and did not in any way have a relationship with God. I feel there are a lot of people in England who claim to be Christian just because England is said to be a Christian nation, as though Christianity is by birth just like nationality.

Personally, I grew up in a Christian family. During my time in England I went to a small church and became part of that church’s community in Worksop. However, because my friends didn’t believe in God, my relationship with God was luke-warm and I would go to church just to tick the register (religion). At this point in my life, my relationship with God through Jesus Christ is at the best it has ever been and he is everything to me, my creator, father, friend, comfort, deliverer, the list goes on.

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