I wish this subforum had the polling system, but I guess just straight up answers are good enough

1) you chose to be christian by yourself
2)you were brought up and raised as a christian

I figured these would be the 2 most common choices, I'm just trying to put things in perspective for myself:)

Thanks for looking!

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I was brought up and raised as a Christian but words alone weren't sufficient enough. A circumstance happened in which changed my life around and turned my life to the Lord.

I was raised a christian, But that doesn't mean I just followed the Lord from birth. I went through alot of weed abuse and an addictive lifestyle. During that time i never really knew the Lord, I was just some kid getting stoned everyday.

I was so far from the Lord that when my parents switched me to being homeschooled (the homeschool place was christian) I felt angry that my mom would put me in a christian school.

That point was the turning point in my life, after a few months I started getting used to the fact that I was christian and I needed to be following God and not getting stoned and living this terrible lifestyle that I was.

There were several other turning points in my life that made my life go from "eh, im kinda living for God" to "The Lord is my life, salvation, and I will live for him all my days".

The decision was totally mine, My parents weren't really following God when I was young either (my dad drank alot). But they are much more now, So me and my parents kinda changed together.

This post was edited by weasleface on May 2 2011 07:55am

Yep, I was in the depths of sin, I did everything you could imagine.

It was only at the age of 23 that I came to the realization that I was a broken sinner in need of salvation.

I reached out the beggar's hand to the LORD.

This post was edited by Torm1 on May 2 2011 09:13am

very interesting thanks for the comments guys, always looking for more!

I'm a combination of both.

I don't think that one can simply be raised a Christian and be a Christian for this reason (feel free to prove me wrong) because it's a choice that needs to be made by the individual, not simply the parents.

That being said, I think my parents introducing me to the idea of Jesus helped me in my journey of faith, but I'd say I really began devoting my life to Christ this past summer.
I had been attending this same Christian camp for ~7 years now, and this past summer I felt very called by Jesus. My sophomore year (this past year) I was focused a lot on my girlfriend and
doing bad things with her and what not, and I felt that God was speaking through the counselors at the camp calling me to give up my old lifestyle.
Of course I feel like the temptation of sexual immorality still plagues me and will always plague me, I'm confident that I'm strides ahead of where I was last year.

Not a christian

born and raised roman catholic. made the choice to be confirmed etc. make the choice to semi-regularly go to church. i'm in my early 20s and i live on my own now so it has nothing to do with my family etc.

I'm from denmark .. We don't give a fuck about religion tbh.. We get confirmated at the age of 13 or 14 .. But the only reason why, is because we get a big party.. And btw.. The day we get confirmated is also the day we all start drinking.. Yes, that's denmark ..