My Testimony

I chose to write about my testimony. For some their testimony is filled with drugs and violence. Others have problems with abuse or sexual immorality. I on the other hand have a relatively simple; some might say even boring, testimony. Well I grew up in the small safe town of Murrieta, California. My parents had not always been Christians or even religious for that matter. They began going to church when I was born. We began to attend a church known as Calvary Chapel Murrieta. This was my home for the next 18 years where I learned about God and all of the wonderful things he had done. I was raised in the church and I never questioned anything I had learned. I also began to just go through the motions. I believed what I heard every Sunday but it didn’t affect me the way it should have. Well as a young adult going into high school I joined the wrestling team. I turned out to be very good. In fact I made varsity my freshman year after only wrestling for about 2 months. This was the both a blessing and a terrible thing. I began to get major peer pressure from my teammates to attend parties and drink. I initially said no but after a while they wore me down. I began to emerge myself in that world and surprisingly enough began to enjoy it. I never would have thought that I could have fallen into a lifestyle like that. Even my girlfriend at the time who was a “good Christian girl” began to pressure me into things that I never wanted. It really became tough to determine what right and wrong was. I liked my life for the most part and it felt right to me. As time went on I started to feel empty and lost. I began attending the high school youth group and started being discipled by the youth pastor. This is the single best thing that has ever happened to me with the exception of finding Christ. This is because I finally came back to reality. I found the fellowship and the love that I was searching for through the parties and the drinking. I felt as though God had truly changed my life. It was no longer my parent’s religion and how I was brought up. It finally became real. From that point on I have had my ups and downs just as any relationship does. However I now have a personal connection and relationship with not only God but my fellow Christians that I never had experienced before.