I have a serious question...LOL....YES IT IS TURE...I have a question about living in a Christian family???

Question

How many of you were born and raised in a family that was Christian, attended a Christian church, lived by Christian morals, and had Christian friends? What branch of Christianity is/was your famly? Are you still of that Christian faith or did you change to another faith or abandon Christianity?

I was raised in a Southern Baptist Convention family in Kentucky. We made every effort to live by the morals and standards of the Bible. We had the fancy Bible on the coffee table. I am 36 years old and my faith is stronger and I attend American Baptist Association church in Arkansas. I am in the US Air Force.

Answer 1

I was raised in a Southern Baptist family in Kentucky and then Georgia. We made every effort to live by the morals and standards of the Bible. We had a fancy Bible but that we used for a family devotional each night but I don't know where it went. I am not 36 years old and my faith is stronger. I attend Summit Baptist Church in Georgia. I am in the land grading industry but hope to become an aerospace engineer.

Answer 2

I grew up in the Catholic church but my parents only went when we were really small. My dad and us kids still went. I found I didn't believe in what they were teaching when I started to go to confession because saying prayers over and over that were more like saying words because the words were not from my heart sure didn't make sense that that could take away sins. I went home and ask if I had to go back and I was told to my surprise no.

In 6th grade a teacher taught Bible classes after school and I said a prayer to except the Lord but at that time I didn't understand it so I didn't really get saved.

When I was about 28 I decided I wanted to know if there was a God. I picked the Mormon church to do my studying at. I kept asking question and no one could answer my question of why Jesus had to die on the cross and what the full reason was for him doing so. Long story short someone witnessed to me and I visited his church and that Sunday the message was all about Jesus and that he died to save us from our sins. That if was a gift by faith and not works. I left the Mormon church that day. It was a Baptist church I believe. I have been to other born-again churches, so I think of myself as born-again with no ties to any one denomination even though I just joined a Baptist church. This Baptist church is not like any I have been to before. I believe the pastor said it is American Baptist. We are not told how to act or dress or that we have to give money, they realize that not everyone can give. Most of us give of our talents though for the health of our church and community.

Diane

Answer 3

Hello! I was raised into a Christian family. We've always attended Baptist Churches but I truly have a personal relationship with the LORD. Denomination doesn't matter, but I do take communion once a month, believe that baptism is important (but not a requirement for salvation), enjoy fellowshipping with other believers and being part of corporate worship and prayer. LOL - I have a fancy bible on my table sometimes! Peace.

Answer 4

I was raised in a Sourthern Baptist family. And I don't mean as in, yeah, we went to church on Sunday and the rest of the week you couldn't tell my family were God-fearing people. I mean, as in, both my parents are sunday school teachers and my grandfather is a preacher. You can't be around my family for more than ten minutes without hearing them talk about Jesus and church.
For some reason, even though I was raised in a devout christian home, I would get irritated every time someone spoke about Jesus. I honestly don't know why. So I started looking at other religions to see if I could find something better for myself.
I now practice witchcraft. It seems to have filled the gaps of what I was missing in church. It makes more sense and it's way more forgiving than any christian beliefs I have found.
Blessed Be!


As a side note - how does having a fancy bible on the coffee table make you a christian? That's like saying driving a nice car makes you a car salesman. It doesn't make any damn sense. That is another part of the problem I see with Christianity. Most (not all, i know) are more concerned with putting up a good "front" of "Look! We go to church! We have our fancy bible on the table! We'll make it to heaven!" when they don't stop to think and try to be better people. It's all about appearances....... I just don't get it.

Answer 5

I was raised in a Christian family and attended church a lot until I turned around 13. I surrounded myself with Christian friends, however, I have just made some athiest friends...whole other subject.
I was raised Baptist but since have decided that's not what I want to stick with. I haven't really decided on another branch yet but am searching.

Answer 6

I was born and raised into a family that attended Southern Baptist Churches. My family eventually stopped going and I continued for a while until we moved to another town.

I slipped away from the faith for many many years. Eventually as it says, God gets back His own, one way or another, and the events that have happened in my life, all lead back to Him, there was no way I could keep living how I was after being where He put me.

I am in a non-denominational church, I still hold the Southern Baptist beliefs, but the churches I attended that were SB, weren't for me after my life changes.

Answer 7

I was also raised in a Southern Baptist home (in Okla). My parents were lovely to be raised by - they were earnest about their beliefs but weren't too strict so that I never felt the need to rebel. They helped me to make my faith my own so that as I grew older I wouldn't cling to their beliefs but was strong enough to find my own.

I am a Christian and now attend a quasi-nondenominational church with the intent to go over seas in the next four years to work as a full time missionary.

Answer 8

my family was never really religious until i was roughly 16. we started attending church but it felt just like a waste of time. i got nothing out of it except we had to stand up and sing, sit down and listen, then eat some bread and drink grape juice. by then i was already too smart for my own good. i am a programmer and so i think very logically and the thing that were being said were, lets face it, unbelieveable. there are too many questions and not enough answers for me anymore, i used to but no longer consider myself a christian. i am now agnostic. I don't know whats out there and the only way to find out is to keep an open mind, (or dying i guess would do it too but that kinda defeats the purpose huh?) and hope that someday i'll have a revelation that will clear things up for me.

Answer 9

Mom sent me to Sunday School. She didn't attend, herself. Sent me to a Lutheran church when I was little, but switched me to the Salvation Army because her friend's daughter promised me a ride to & from if I went there.

The SA was central to my growing up years. 3 different services on Sunday. And, different things every Mon, Weds & Thurs evenings, too. I even hung out at school with the same kids that I went to church with. That church formed my moral base, a Christian kid in a nonchristian family.

Now I live in a small town that does not have the SA so we attend a Fundamental Baptist. A few differences here & there in church doctrine, but not enough to matter. The word of God is the same. It's a good church, & I am happy there.

Answer 10

My mom was lapsed Assemblies of God. (She and my father had fallen victim to a scam in one of those churches and got burned out on church, and then she got in the habit of not going.) However, she loved the idea of *me* going to church and reading the Bible, which I did. I learned to read with the help of the Sunday comics and that big, fancy coffee table Bible. Her relatives are almost all Assemblies of God and very serious about it.

I am 33 years old, and left the Assemblies of God church (for a variety of reasons) at age 18. I became a "church shopper," then apatheistic (not caring about God), and then Wiccan at 23. I have been Pagan in some way or another for 10 years and have no intention of going back.

Interesting question!