Listen to These Young Men
0 comments | Posted by Monica Hu on 27 Aug 2009 in Christianity :: Food for Thoughts
gobit.com is a website I like to visit. It is not just a place you can find a wealth of resources on web technologies but is also filled with heaps of inspirations about God and Christianity. Over there, I feel the love of God.
Below is the excerpt of the interview done by Nathan Smith that I found in godbit.com. (Note that our church website is employing the grid framework, 960.gs, established by Nathan, a wonderful guy). I hope Nathan would not mind me to share the testimonials of his guests with you. Read on.
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Lastly, please share the occasion or process by which you first came to know Christ, and the impact that has had on your lives.
Josh:
Halfway through my college I took a year off from my education. It was during this time that I left the traditional church I had grown up in and began a search for whatever “The Truth” might be. I began taking philosophy courses, visiting a variety of places of worship, and engaging in debates and conversations with people who held all different kinds of world views. I spoke with people ranging from atheists, agnostics, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and people who just didn’t really care one way or the other. It was during this search that I encountered a gentleman speaking on campus and relating all of the claims of Christ to the questions I had been asking. This was the beginning of my discovery of a reasonable faith in Christ and this ultimately lead to a relationship with Christ. I think that faith in Christ is not something that anyone can prove to – or choose for – another person. It is something that is a personal interaction between a human being and his maker. Deuteronomy 4:29 says:
“But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Mike:
I accepted Christ when I was 5 years old. My dad was the pastor of our local church, and I remember him explaining to me that Christ died for my sins, and that to receive his forgiveness, I needed to believe in him and accept him as my Lord and Savior. I remember being excited as I asked Christ into my life at that point. During my high school years though, I chose to really make my faith in Christ my own. I had been going through a period of rebellion, but God was pursuing me. One night, when I was sixteen, I received two speeding tickets with a half hour. For whatever reason, that just broke me. I cracked open my Bible, and read Matthew 16:24-26:
“Then Jesus told his disciples, If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?”
I realised that in my rebellion, I was seeking to save my own life for myself, rather than let Christ be lord. I told him from that point forward that my life was his.
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