h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*Shrugs*

Your choice. I won't pressure you into it!

i didn't know God until i went to a bible camp when i was 11, and the speaker there was really God, and i actually felt God, and becuseof that i ebcame a Christian.

spook

I've always been a christian. I went to a private Lutheran school for a couple of years, then my family moved but I've always been a christian. Though I didn't start really living my faith until more resant years. It's getting oppressively hard to be a christian any more because eveyone thinks that all christians and stuffy judgemental people when we are really any different from anyone else.

That was my case exactly.

I'm a Christian... my parents are really Live It Out types, so I was raised with a constant sense of God, and a "don't take our word on it, check out what you believe for yourself" attitude. I guess when I was 16 I was fed up and hopeless of my own hypocrisy, I wasn't living my faith, but I knew there was something or someone to believe in. Enter Jesus and his hope. Has anyone here seen the Gospel According to Matthew movie with Bruce Marciano? That's the best portrayal of Jesus I've ever seen, I saw it at the end of the summer God shook me awake.

Since then my life has been an adventure!

I don't worry about denominations... I've worked with so many, from Assemblies of God, Charismatic "Non-Denominations", ultra-conservatives, Messianic Jews... right now with the Church of God 7th Day... one body many parts... as long as they believe in Jesus as the son of God who died and rose again, and the bible as the inerrant word of God, I don't have much difficulty (although I am more comfortable in some settings than others).

I also don't believe you HAVE to go to church to be a Christian... but it is a good thing to fellowship and find accountability.

Rachel.

a church is a meeting of a roup of christians, so just meeting and talking about God with a group of christian friends is church.

spook

Or how about that as a Christian I am the church? We as individuals all make up the bride, you know? I agree, spook. Wherever two or more gather in his name, he promised to be there!

Rachel

Getting philosophical.

I'm a Christian. The denomination I call home is presbyterianism (Church of Scotland - I need to be careful here as some of the US presby churches are a little, umm, batty).

I think the word 'home' there sets out my viewpoint. Just as most people who live in my country are Scottish, but not all of them live in my house, so there are many out there who are Christians who don't 'live' in my denomination. Of course, each of us has a slightly different view of what is Scottish, and all of us have a different view of what is Christian.

I for one am proud to be a shouting, singing, Bible-believing, praying, praising Christian. The joy of my faith is strong and I will bring myself to Him in worship. How can I not sing, how can I not make a joyful noise upon my piano, when I know what He has done for me.

Exactly. Once you feel His joy, life is never the same!

True.