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I've been Christian for 28 years.

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  • #16
    Seeing as I'm a Lutheran, I believe I've been a Christian since I was baptized as a newborn. So that makes it 25, close to 26 years now.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Chrawnus View Post
      Seeing as I'm a Lutheran, I believe I've been a Christian since I was baptized as a newborn. So that makes it 25, close to 26 years now.
      For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

      You didn't get baptized - some guy in a dress tried to drown you and your family just stood there taking pictures!



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      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • #18
        I don't know. I was raised Christian and considered myself to be a pretty staunch Christian but I did not realize until age 20 that Christianity required a change in lifestyle. So 10 years or so if you count that as the beginning.
        "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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        • #19
          Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
          I don't know. I was raised Christian and considered myself to be a pretty staunch Christian but I did not realize until age 20 that Christianity required a change in lifestyle. So 10 years or so if you count that as the beginning.
          Me too - I was practically born in Church*, from a Christian home, but didn't realize that I didn't actually have a "personal relationship**" with Christ until about that same age.


          *reminds me of the line "If a cat crawled into an oven and gave birth to kittens, would you call them 'muffins'"?
          **I realize some here hate that expression, but I simply mean that my relationship to Christ - prior to this - was based on the fact that my Dad was a deacon, my brother was a preacher, I attended Church, etc.... I don't think I had made a genuine confession of faith where I really "meant business" prior to that
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • #20
            This seems to me to be mostly an exercise in determining whose is bigger.
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            • #21
              Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
              This seems to me to be mostly an exercise in determining whose is bigger.
              Yeah, my arrogance is certainly bigger than all of you guys'.

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              • #22
                I'm a girl, so...
                If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                  This seems to me to be mostly an exercise in determining whose is bigger.
                  I don't see it that way at all. I just saw it as - somebody was curious where everybody else was in their walk.
                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                    I don't see it that way at all. I just saw it as - somebody was curious where everybody else was in their walk.
                    Well, time is not necessarily a meaningful indicator of that.
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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
                      I'm a girl, so...
                      ...you can still boast.
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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                        Well, time is not necessarily a meaningful indicator of that.
                        Of course, but to assume.....


                        nevermind
                        The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                          ...you can still boast.
                          About?
                          If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
                            About?
                            Christ crucified, buried and risen again.
                            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
                              About?
                              How long you've been saved.

                              I'm not trying to assume anything, just noting a tendency in myself to feel proud about how long I've been a Christian which I need to squash when it comes up. I don't think I'm alone in that.
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                              • #30
                                true, except why aren't all the Christians who have been Christians for many decades mature? Years plainly do not correlate with maturity.
                                If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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