When I was young, my family and I went to church most Sundays. But when it was time to go to children’s ministry, I was always scared to be away from them and nervous to interact with others. As a kid and through high school, it felt like I was always worrying — about school…
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I grew up in a loving, Christian household as the youngest of 11 kids. I cared more about my performance than I cared about myself, constantly feeling the pressure of many successful older siblings that weighed on me to do the same, even when I couldn’t. I felt ashamed, foolish, and embarrassed for not being…
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Growing up, it seemed as if all the cards had been dealt for me to become the perfect Christian. I was raised by two godly parents, and never questioned if I was loved or not. I went to church, youth group, camp, you name it. By the end of middle school, I had personally read…
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I grew up in a loving, caring household. Even though I was baptized at a young age, as I grew older, I grew further and further from God. I was familiar with the idea of church because my parents modeled and valued it, but I didn’t attend consistently. When I was in sixth grade, my…
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My journey with God started from a very young age. I was baptized as a baby and raised in a loving Lutheran family. I attended preschool at All Saints Lutheran Church, which would become the church I attended for the next 18 years of my life until I graduated high school. I found comfort in…
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Growing up, the one thing I wanted more than anything was the approval of others. I wanted to be liked by everyone and to do that I thought I had to do well in school and be good at the sports I played. I quickly learned to place my identity in what other people thought…
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Some of my best memories growing up are from church. As a kid always wanting to put out the candles in my Sunday school classroom, running into the big community room for donuts once we were let out, and, as I got older, heelying down the halls with my best friends and late-night study sessions…
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I’ve been following Christ for a while now. I think about 6 years for real, as before that I think a lot of what I believed about God was impersonal and just a distant idea of what I thought He was. But even with trying to follow Christ and be in a right relationship with…
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I grew up in a Catholic home. I went the whole nine yards as a Catholic and was confirmed my freshman year of high school. I thought that being confirmed was the final stamp of approval I needed to be able to say that I knew God. Although I believed that I knew Him, the…
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