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How old were you when you were born again and where did it happen?

Kidron

Kidron

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It was when i was 12yrs old and enjoying a week of Church sponsored summer camp, during a marsh-mello on a stick outside at night by the big fire "event", that i was first moved in a deep spiritual way by a camp counselor's testimony.
A lot of us were that night.
However I was 17 when i truly responded to the gospel and trusted Christ, and then made a public confession of my Faith at the alter during that same Sunday morning "alter call" service.
Years after this, when i was working as "staff" as the Music Minister at a church, i decided to get baptised in water.

What has continually happened to me during my "Christianity", is that there are seasons when God deals with me and changes me and i feel a strong divine presence, often with signs following during these seasons of encounter.
And, during those seasons find myself (not of myself) being very zealous of all things to do with God's work and holiness, and the New Testament seems SO ALIVE to me, especially the Gospel of John and the words of Paul.
But then, there are dry spiritual seasons where i sort of >feel< like im cut loose a bit from God to find out exactly how devoted i am to the Faith when the sameness of life just goes on and on and on and time ticks away slowly.
 
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Then went nuts at 32. Studied for 50+hrs a week at hyper speed. Couldn't get enough. Still ask and find answers but spend less time doing it.
 
I was age 23. It was two days before the Challenger disaster.
It happened sitting in my favorite chair in the living room.
I got water baptized 2 months later.
 
JohnDB said:
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Then went nuts at 32. Studied for 50+hrs a week at hyper speed. Couldn't get enough. Still ask and find answers but spend less time doing it.
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I believe that God loves it when we go nuts like you are describing.:thumbsup
 
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Jethro Bodine said:
I was age 23. It was two days before the Challenger disaster.
It happened sitting in my favorite chair in the living room.
I got water baptized 2 months later.
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Thats very interesting., very interesting.
Were you reading a bible, or watching a Christian TV show, or were you meditating for a while and decided that was the time?
What happened exactly, if you dont mind sharing??
 
Kidron said:
Thats very interesting., very interesting.
Were you reading a bible, or watching a Christian TV show, or were you meditating for a while and decided that was the time?
What happened exactly, if you dont mind sharing??
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I had been watching a televangelist for a few months on TV. They were doing their Janurary telethon and my wife and I looked at each other and decided now's the time. Still to this day can't talk or think about my salvation experience without choking up. May he be forever praised. Thank you God for breaking into my life and being the hope that we humans thought didn't exist.
 
Jethro Bodine said:
I had been watching a televangelist for a few months on TV. They were doing their Janurary telethon and my wife and I looked at each other and decided now's the time. Still to this day can't talk or think about my salvation experience without choking up. May he be forever praised. Thank you God for breaking into my life and being the hope that we humans thought didn't exist.
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Do you recall the next day?
How were you the next day?....How did life, the world, all things, seem?
Any different?
 
Kidron said:
Do you recall the next day?
How were you the next day?....How did life, the world, all things, seem?
Any different?
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I was in a new life. Night and day. Black and white. No question about it. My reckoning of time started all over for me.

"...the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." (2 Corinthians 5:17 NASB)


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Jethro Bodine said:
I was in a new life. Night and day. Black and white. No question about it. My reckoning of time started all over for me.

"...the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." (2 Corinthians 5:17 NASB)


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Did you notice that sin became more sinful regarding the way you perceived it before you were saved?
 
28. facing a potential felony because of...well, long story. Out on bond, thanks only to my wonderful parents. Suddenly, everything that the Christians had tried to teach me in my life came to me, and...I said the Sinner's Prayer, cried, and changed.
 
5. Don't remember much. My mom said one Sunday morning I announced that I wanted to be saved and she had me talk to the pastor. I do remember one brief moment of that.

Began to get more serious with my faith around age 15 or so.
 
Christ_empowered said:
28. facing a potential felony because of...well, long story. Out on bond, thanks only to my wonderful parents. Suddenly, everything that the Christians had tried to teach me in my life came to me, and...I said the Sinner's Prayer, cried, and changed.
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Beautiful. !!
 
questdriven said:
5. Don't remember much. My mom said one Sunday morning I announced that I wanted to be saved and she had me talk to the pastor. I do remember one brief moment of that.

Began to get more serious with my faith around age 15 or so.
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Thx for sharing.
 
Christ_empowered said:
28. facing a potential felony because of...well, long story. Out on bond, thanks only to my wonderful parents. Suddenly, everything that the Christians had tried to teach me in my life came to me, and...I said the Sinner's Prayer, cried, and changed.
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Yeah, somewhat similar experience. Slapped with a misdemeanour stemming from a Traumatic Brain Injury. I was destroyed then rebuilt just like His Church. A completely new and different person, and thankful to the Lord like all get-out.

This was about 5 years ago, and was actually the second time I was BAC. The first time was my OBE to Hell. Forget exactly when, maybe late 30s. Going to Hell will change you real fast.
 
KevinK said:
Yeah, somewhat similar experience. Slapped with a misdemeanour stemming from a Traumatic Brain Injury. I was destroyed then rebuilt just like His Church. A completely new and different person, and thankful to the Lord like all get-out.
This was about 5 years ago, and was actually the second time I was BAC. The first time was my OBE to Hell. Forget exactly when, maybe late 30s. Going to Hell will change you real fast.
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There wasn't a single moment in time that I could say I was born again, but I was very young, 9 or 10 when I first started seeking God, I loved reading the Bible my grandmother gave to me, I would read it for hours in my room. When I went to bed, I would sing and pray to God, it's how I went to sleep every night. I would beg my mom to take me to church (she did), but I didn't want to go to the kid's Sunday School class, I wanted to hear the sermon even though I didn't understand a lot of it.

My desire in reading and studying the Bible grew about 10 years ago, I spent a lot of time in study.
 
Abigail123 said:
There wasn't a single moment in time that I could say I was born again, but I was very young, 9 or 10 when I first started seeking God, I loved reading the Bible my grandmother gave to me, I would read it for hours in my room. When I went to bed, I would sing and pray to God, it's how I went to sleep every night. I would beg my mom to take me to church (she did), but I didn't want to go to the kid's Sunday School class, I wanted to hear the sermon even though I didn't understand a lot of it.

My desire in reading and studying the Bible grew about 10 years ago, I spent a lot of time in study.
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Very sweet testimony.
 
I honestly can't point to a specific moment, hour, day, month, or year. For me it seems to have been an on-going process. I was raised in the Catholic church as a youngster and was very active in the church but about the time I graduated from high school I began to realize that what I had been taught seemed unreal and nothing more than repetitious tradition so I rebelled and left the church. I even used the Scriptures as the source of information for an essay I wrote in college debunking Christianity with what I thought were contradictions in the Bible. It wasn't until I was in my late 30's when, while out for a walk during the night and looking around at the stars and the northern lights, that things suddenly seemed to take on a different meaning. It was then that I realized that I was wrong about what I believed and I've been on a slow and steady walk of faith ever since. In fact, my CFnet username is derived from that slow and steady walk. I am a Work In Progress.
 
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