I like to think that religion is a wholly personal thing, and my experiences with it have confirmed my belief. My father was born Catholic and raised as a Jehovah’s Witness. My mother was agnostic and didn’t believe that she needed church to be religious. When she met my stepfather, they became born-again Christians. That was the only time I actually attended church regularly. I was given my first (B)ible at the age of nine by my Sunday school teacher and received Christ into my life shortly after that.

Although I had received Christ, I did not behave as a Christian. My family stopped attending church, but I continued attending Awanas on Wednesday nights, although I soon stopped attending that as well. Religiously, I was at a standstill. As I got older, I recognized a desire to have religion in my life, yet at the same time realized that I was too logical to totally accept a

It was a wonderful feeling, and there were a lot of congratulations that evening. The following weekend I was baptized. I finally felt religiously whole. Unfortunately, I left for college soon after and stopped attending church when I moved to Columbia. I still consider myself Christian, although I will be the first to admit that I do not behave as would be expected.

nd believe in anything religious. I found myself searching for answers that would disprove the theory of divinity that was Christianity. Looking back now, I realize that I lacked the conviction that I had longed for because I was too afraid to believe in an all-powerful deity.

This last summer, there came a turning point in my religious life. Shortly after high school graduation, I started dating a friend of mine who was a devout Southern Baptist. Soon, at his and his sister’s encouragement, I began attending their youth group on Wednesday nights. Soon af

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