A Date
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@dfollin (27267)
United States
August 9, 2011 9:32pm CST
When I was a child we didn't go to church too often,we were sorta like those Christmas,Easter church goers!
When we did go it was in a methodist denomination church.I was christined when I was 6.
When I was 14 our minister moved and I did not like our new one,so I quit going to church.My family no longer went.When I had my first two children I did not have a car most of the time.I got them christined.
Then when the youngest one was about 7 and a half,the oldest one was 10 we started going to a baptist church that we really liked.My youngest son and I got baptized.But,the pastor asked me the date I accepted Christ.
I asked him,the date? He said he had to put a specific date in my bible.We moved and the pastor there kept saying that he accepted Christ on a specific date.That puzzles me.I believe that it is a process that you start learning about Christ and accept Him as our savior that way.
What do you think?
When we did go it was in a methodist denomination church.I was christined when I was 6.
When I was 14 our minister moved and I did not like our new one,so I quit going to church.My family no longer went.When I had my first two children I did not have a car most of the time.I got them christined.
Then when the youngest one was about 7 and a half,the oldest one was 10 we started going to a baptist church that we really liked.My youngest son and I got baptized.But,the pastor asked me the date I accepted Christ.
I asked him,the date? He said he had to put a specific date in my bible.We moved and the pastor there kept saying that he accepted Christ on a specific date.That puzzles me.I believe that it is a process that you start learning about Christ and accept Him as our savior that way.
What do you think?3 people like this
5 responses
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Aug 11
hi dfollin I am like you I think for me it was a gradual process
and I would have been hard put to put down a specific date as I was in a process of learning and it took awhile for me to understand
the whole concept so I would have had to say the months of December and January or some such.I think lots of people come to it the way you did and I did.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
10 Aug 11
I see no reason why the date would make any difference.I sure couldn't tell u it's been a long time ago.
even it had happened on one specific date.@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
11 Aug 11
i'M WAY AHEAD OF U IN AGE, NEARLY 19 YEARS SO U HAVE ALOT TO LOOK FORWARD TO, LOL.
@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
10 Aug 11
I grew up accepting Christ. I am Presbyterian. We believe it is a process, as you said, not one thunder-bolt of a moment. I never understood the Baptist theory that it happens at one precise moment.
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@toniganzon (77137)
• Philippines
10 Aug 11
Date is not important at all. What matters is that you have accepted Christ into your life already.
I don't go to a baptist church but i go to a non-denominational Evangelical megachurch and our pastor don't ask when we became Christians.
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