My name is Jessica (Arqueete to you!) and I was the 12th person to join the 'original' Warriors for Christ guild, which helped me greatly in my spiritual development. I accepted Christ at the end of August last year, so I am a new believer, but its hard to think of myself as being so new to the faith, since I've changed so tremedously in the last year the old me seems so far away. I was baptised as a baby, but I never really was Christian throughout my childhood. Sometimes I'd pray at times like September 11th, for a while I believed in God, for a while I was unsure about what I believed, but even when I believed in God that is all I believed. I knew nothing of Jesus, or the Gospels, or what the bible contained. I didn't know the Lord's Prayer and I had never been to church except for 3 funerals and a wedding.
It was really the last 2 funerals and the wedding that got me interested in Christianity. I felt so uncomfortable, silent as the Lord's prayer was said, not knowing the songs or really knowing anything about what went on in a church. Still unknown to my family I began reading the bible as the rest of the family slept, for my mom was (un)coincidentally starting to watch a preacher on TV and had decided to purchase one.
But not knowing where to start in the bible, I start with Genesis, which I found very interesting but as you know, its full of a lot of, "And Bob had two sons, Fred and George, and lived 162 years, Fred married Mary, daughter of Bill, and had three sons, John, Frank, and Dave" which I'm not afraid to admit bored me quite a bit and I usually skipped parts though I was determined to get through it word for word
razz Then came Left Behind. The Left Behind series, by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, is the fictional story of people Left Behind after the rapture (Whether you believe that's coming or not, its still a good book, one of those you can't put down). The book taught me who Jesus was and more about Christianity. What shocked me the most was the revelation that some people don't go to Heaven. I'd never heard that, never really thought about it, as a child I'd always been told, "So-and-so's in Heaven now" and it never occured to me that some people might choose nto to go to Heaven by their actions here on Earth. I knew one thing: I wanted to go to Heaven, and I didn't want to be the kid who when people were talking about church said to me, "What's your religion?" and I answered, "I don't really have one". They thought I was so lucky that I didn't have to go to church- I thought
they were the lucky ones.
So I came to Christ. And though I do not have a physical church still, I attend the
Church of Fools, which is like a real church, except you generally don't have people from France, Italy, Australia, the UK, the US, and various other countries at your church at every service
3nodding And real churches don't have trolls who think its funny to come interrupt the services with "HAIL SATAN!" or "YOU'RE ALL FAGS!". Luckily, also unlike real churches, we have Wardens with 'Smite' buttons that can temporarily kick from the church people who cause so much disruption it gets out of hand.
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