Fellow Christians: How long have you been saved?

Question

going on 11 years here!

Hi Tony, even though my question was directed toward fellow Christians, I appreciate your input :)

Wife, Ive read your testimony. Praise Jesus! I showed my husband it today actually! He is still searching you know and it touched him too, I could tell. God bless you :-)

You guys, its so awesome to hear all of these years! God is sooo good :-)

Kevin, youre welcome to criticize my choice of words. The people it was directed to got the memo. Its all good.

Answer 1

For about 5 years now. My life is SO better now that I have let Jesus take the lead. =]

EDIT - Thank you Lucid, ((Hug)) =]

Answer 2

Been in church for over ten year, and still awaiting for the mercies of God. Salvation is not so so easy.

God called Abraham in Gen12, it was not many, many years later before he experience the forgiveness of his sins in Gen 15:6. From Gen 12 to 15, it would have been about 10 years! Are the faith in this Laodicean epoch, greater than the faith of Abraham, who had so, so many personal and direct experience with God? If one is saved after three years in the church, is she/he suggesting that her/his faith is three times stronger than Abraham? See the pride, and the conceit!

Many in today apostasizing lukewarm Christendom are hardly saved.

Please read Thomas Shepard's work for a full understanding of what a true convert is.
http://www.amazon.com/Sincere-Convert-Believer-Thomas-Shepard/dp/1877611328




TO Obanroo

Once saved is always saved; but my question is - those who departed, were never saved in the first place. See how difficult salvation is; 603 550 male Israelites above 20's (Num 1&2) came out of Egypt; only two in this generation entered the Promised Land (see Ps 95, 105, 106, Heb 3&4) which is a pattern or picture of their eternal rest.

John 6 - thousands fed upon the miracles of Jesus; and what happened by John 6:66? All had forsaken Him except the twelve!!

And even one as an Apostle like Judas Iscariot go to hell!!

All had forsaken the Apostle Paul, after he had preached so hard in Corinth, in Ephesus,Galatia.......

2Ti 4:11 Only Luke is with me. .... 2Ti 4:16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

Answer 3

Even though there are those that believe "Once saved always saved" the scriptures do not support this.
2 Corin. 13:5
2 Peter 2: 20,21
Ezekiel 18: 24,26
Hebrews 10:29-31
there are many others.
No one can be sure until God's final judgement.
There was never a man that was a greater slave for Jesus than Paul. Yet he said he had to pummel his body and lead it as a slave so that might not become disapproved. We have to prove ourselves daily, it's not a given.

Answer 4

More than 20 years.

Answer 5

Since November 1988.

Answer 6

22 years

Answer 7

31 years thanks to God's grace. I have grown much over the years through many tough trials.
I want to tell anyone who will listen, that I wish the day we turn our lives over to Him and accept Jesus as our Savior, that we instantly became perfect....but we do not. Non-believers call some of us hypocrites for this reason. But what it does do is give you a change of heart. When you do sin, it deeply bothers you. You want forgiveness and strive not to sin; though we all fail. This is why we are constantly asking for forgiveness, or we should be.
The other thing that we need to remember as Believers is that God sometimes will shield us from things happening and sometimes He does not. But as Believers we strongly need to know and remind ourselves that God is walking through it with us, always.
Remembering that God can make all things work for the good to those who love Him. (not some things or most things, but ALL things)

Answer 8

I began following Christ again about a year ago, although I prefer to not be labeled in any way. I am spiritual, not religious, and attend no church due to close-mindedness and misinterpretation. Oh, and hypocrisy.

But in answer to your question, when I finally realized that Christ was real and had nothing to do with the church that drove me away from Him, I also realized that I'd been saved since before I was born. We all are.

Answer 9

7 years Thank God I allowed Jesus into my heart.
I love how I can walk and talk with him.
Yes Obanroo we must endue to the end it is not once saved always saved as many believe.

Answer 10

almost 6 or 7 years

Answer 11

Would this question not be better addressed to fundamentalist Christians? The word "saved" isn't in the vocabulary of many Christians of other faiths.