Christian salvation testimonies...?

Question

Any Christians out there who would care to give a brief account of how they came to receive God's free gift of forgiveness, reconciliation to Him & eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ, crucified for our sins and risen from the dead?

For the glory of God!

Thanks in advance for all sincere, polite replies.

May the Lord bless you. x

Allen B -

Hi there. Thanks for taking the time to answer my "question".

In regard to your comment, I live in the United Kingdom. It's just gone 2:30 in the pm here, and I've not long come from a church meeting. Actually, the preaching today was very good.

May God bless you. x

Answer 1

Hey Carl! (Is that your name by the way?)
So my testimony is not as exciting as many others but it's still a testimony so I will take the time to tell you ( though this will be short)
I was raised in a christian home, and received Christ at age 7 I believe it was. I remember praying on the top bunk of my bed ( my sister and I shared a room then) and I remember just starting to cry, asking Jesus to live in me and forgive me of my sins....it was pretty awesome. I never truly came to know Him personally until later on- as I grew older. I always had the "fear" of the Lord growing up- knew many scriptures but never truly dug into the word of God until I became an adult. I did stray for some time, but knew when I was in sin...and repented one day at the age of 19, crying out to God to just forgive me and take over. I remember feeling the Holy Spirit just move and I was in tears. So since then, I have truly come to DESIRE to read His word and to understand it from His Spirit--I love learning something new from God's word and I also love to share His word with others and even fellowship with friends, about anything concerning God and His wonderful ways. I share the gospel on Yahoo a lot, I share biblical things on here more than I do anywhere else actually!
But I still have SO much to learn and I continually pray for the Lord's wisdom and for His grace to continually abound. I want others to know of His wonderful truth! Because there is nothing more important than His eternal salvation-- people need to know WHY they need Him. And they need to know the seriousness of sin in their lives.
Thanks for the question and Happy New Year!

Answer 2

In my case I experienced what is known as irresistible grace also known as efficacious grace in 1997. My life was a mess and I began soul-searching and had the experience described below. I had to consult a learned theologian to understand what was happening to me. I still get chills when I think of it as I was awake for 5 days doing nothing but studying the synoptic gospels, praying and meditating. I really felt I had no choice in the matter and I only slept when I realized I needed to submit my will to something I didn't even understand at the time. Peace

Answer 3

I was raised in a church, my mother is still a Sunday school teacher. I thought I was a good christian until about 3 years ago. After 2 near death experiences, nearly losing my family because of things I had done, my daughter losing her baby, my Dad being diagnosed with congestive heart failure with only 40 percent of his heart working, then nearly giving in to suicide because I was so depressed I came to the place where all I could do was give it all to God because I couldn't handle it anymore. I realized that all of that time I hadn't really trusted God. He will get your attention. Happy to say now that I have 2 beautiful grand children, my family is intact, and my father is once again healthy. With God all things are possible! Got to get ready to take the kids to church!

Answer 4

"As the Bible says, I am already saved (Rom. 8:24, Eph. 2:5–8), but I’m also being saved (1 Cor. 1:8, 2 Cor. 2:15, Phil. 2:12), and I have the hope that I will be saved (Rom. 5:9–10, 1 Cor. 3:12–15). Like the apostle Paul I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12), with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ (Rom. 5:2, 2 Tim. 2:11–13)."

Answer 5

Heard the Bible, and believed. Heard the Gospel, and was saved.

Salvation is a one-time event. It happens in a moment, and it is impossible to lose salvation (1 John 5:13). It is not a "process". Those who teach "processes" are false teachers. No one will be saved by doing works.

Answer 6

Hey this is supposed to be questions not church. Okay, I suppose a lot of "personal" supernatural experiences will follow here......

Answer 7

Through prayer I asked for it.

Answer 8

Shouldn't you be at your place of worship instead of wasting "praying time" with the masses?

Answer 9

This is a request - not a question.

Answer 10

In the Old Testament, the Israelites upheld their Covenant with God by keeping Moses' Law and, of course, the great Commandments. Christians are freed from The Law (later twisted into Talmudism by the Pharisees) and enter into the New Covenant by Baptism. We are saved by the grace of His Passion and Blood alone, a grace we have to actively cooperate with through metanoia (repentance and a turning of the heart toward Christ), submitting our wills to our Father's, and obedience. When we enter into this Covenant, we literally become His children, His family. God the Father becomes for us Abba and Christ seals us to Him with His own Blood. Our task -- and our reward -- is to "become divinized" (to undergo "theosis"), to "put on Christ" and share in the Divine Energies of God and Christ's Sonship. We become the heirs of God Himself. In this divinization, this theosis, His Chosen will share in God's divine nature (2 Peter 1:4) -- but still as creatures of God and not as God Himself or in any way apart from God. We will forever and always be creatures, "becoming God" by sharing in His divine nature, but never in His divine essence -- and never, ever apart from God, which is the lie Satan first told to Eve. The created can never become Uncreated.

We agree entirely with the many Protestants who say one has to "have a personal relationship with Jesus" or "let Jesus into one's heart" if, by that, they mean that we are to pray earnestly, walk the walk, make His Will manifest in our lives, preach the Gospel, etc. We are to turn our hearts toward Christ! We must experience true conversion! We believe, too, that no aspect of our relationsip with Christ can be more intimate and awesome than by prayerfully and humbly receiving Him through the Eucharist and receiving His graces through His other Sacraments!

We refute the idea that all one needs to do in order to be saved is to say "The Sinner's Prayer" (though it is a nice prayer, as far as it goes); we believe that we are to work out our salvation in fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12) lest we be cast away (I Corinthians 9:27) -- but always with the knowledge of God's Fatherly Love and Mercy for us, His adopted children. Likewise, we reject the idea that one can work his way into Heaven or that any Christian's works have salvific merit outside of Christ's grace. Neither faith alone, nor works alone, nor faith and works together saves us or puts God into debt to us; He owes us nothing! Neither getting on your knees once and saying the "Sinner's Prayer," no matter how sincerely, nor a lifetime working at soup kitchens, but without faith and the Sacraments, will save you. It is His grace alone that saves -- a grace we accept in faith and by doing His will!

Though we believe in predestination (Ephesians 1:11), we see it as an inscrutable Mystery, and we reject any ideas of predestination that deny the free will of man or which make God the Author of sin by seeing Him as also predestining some souls to go to Hell (i.e., as in any idea of "double predestination"). We assert that we are created by God in His image, that He created us freely able to choose Him or to choose sin, and that predestination beyond recognizing His omniscience, would render His divine plan meaningless. We believe that free will exists both before and after justification. In other words, a person who enters the Covenant may freely leave it and lose his salvation (2 Peter 2:20-21). While we do believe that whom God elects, He will save, we don't presume to know who the elect are (I Corinthians 4:4)! This is a Mystery of God that we can't presume to know, let alone base an entire theology and soteriology on.

Summary: We are saved by grace alone, through a saving faith (a faith that works in love, Galatians 5:6), and as a fruit of Christ's having suffered and shed His blood for us. Christianity is both a "head religion" and a "heart religion"; we intellectually assent to the Truths given to us by the Church through Her Scripture and Sacred Tradition, and these Truths affirm that we must give our hearts to Jesus. In other words, we are to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30). To focus only on the heart without including the mind ( to forget doctrine and rely on "experience" and "feelings") is to lapse into heresy and subjectivism; to focus on the intellect without including the heart (to forget humility, repentance, and, above all, charity) is to lapse into a legalistic Pharisaism.

To be saved: believe and trust in Jesus, repent of your sins, be baptized, receive the Eucharist, and obey the will of God as taught to us in the Bible and the constant teachings of the Church. Love God with all your heart and mind and soul and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.