Changed Lives
We will be adding personal comments from our readers to this page. If you have a personal testimony about how God has worked in your life, please email it to us, and we will consider putting it on our web site.
We are particularly looking for (but not limited to) testimonies that relate to some aspect of our web site, that is, how an examination of the evidence, or how real life experiences, have led you to conclude that truth of Christianity is relevant. You may have your name included or omitted on the web page, but we will need your name to verify accuracy. Along with your statement on the web page, you may choose to have your full name listed, only your first name, no name at all, or perhaps your first name and city of residence.
Testimony A
By God's grace, I have been a Christian all of my life. Of course, as happens to most of us, I was confronted by various intellectual challenges to the faith. These challenges included liberal theologians who claim that the Bible is filled with myths, atheistic science proponents who claim that God is at best irrelevant, and various philosophies such as existentialism.
What caused my faith to explode has been the study of apologetics—that is, using reason and evidence to examine the truth claims of Christianity. This study really began with D. James Kennedy's daily radio program (on most Christian stations). Kennedy is the author of many books on apologetics and he often has other Christian scholars on his program. From there, I began an earnest investigation as to the truth claims of Christianity. To my delight, I found that there are many scholarly works today that the sincere student can delve into.
For most of my life I had been taught that belief in the Christian faith is largely a matter of blind faith. The epiphany for me was that the Christian does not have to leave his brains at the church door. I discovered that Christianity is more than just a neat system—it is really, really TRUE!
The more I study from this perspective, the more I have realized that the Bible is trustworthy—from the first word in Genesis to the last word in Revelation. The problem for people, it seems to me, is not a lack of evidence, but an abundance of selfishness. The evidence clearly demonstrates the truth of the Christian faith. But the nature of man is to want to thumb our nose at God and to "do it our way."
What I hope to share with people is that once a person opens his mind to objectivley examine the evidence, what one may have previously feared could turn into a loss of freedom (if he accepts Christ as Lord and Savior) turns out to be the greatest blessing. Knowing truth and then turning your life over to the God of the universe results in a great feeling of freedom and confidence.
---Charles
Austin, Texas
Testimony B
Although I was raised in a Christian church in Houston, Texas, I was never truly converted (born again) to Christ until I was 24 years old. Until I was actually "saved" from the wages of sin at the age of 24 I thought I was a Christian because I went to church now and then. I had an idea that Christianity was true although I really did not know why compared to other religions.
The Lord had mercy on me and opened my heart after I took an interest in Bible prophecy in 1981. I was fascinated with the fact that the Bible was filled with predictions of the future. There are prophecies of all types concerning the coming of the Messiah (456 Old Testament Messianic prophecies actual or implied); the state of Israel as Old Testament history and fulfilled prophecy; and many others. I was actually converted by the Spirit of the Lord while I was reading the Bible prophecy of the last days in 2 Timothy 3:1-5. The Bible is true because of the supernatural nature of its predictive prophecy, its historical verification, the reliability of the manuscript evidence, and the confirmation by the Holy Spirit. No other religion in the world meets these criteria. Praise to the risen Lord of glory, Jesus Christ!
---Larry
Austin, Texas