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Originally Posted by RandyWayne
From age 12 to 18. I still consider myself apostolic (albeit a one-stepper who is saved at repentance should one drop dead between asking for forgiveness and being baptized), just no longer in the UPC.
I just remember people going through the steps and fellow saints rejoicing. I did too... but the REAL rejoicing occurred when they showed up in a service or two looking the part. Then you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that salvation had visited them. As a teen, this is what I equated "being saved" to. This is what most equated it to.
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Thats about the length of time I stayed in it. Actually mine was closer to 13-17. Probably started getting out of it somewhere between 16 and 17 and finally left when I was 17. I was really into it when I started though. For those first few years, I was totally into it. I would pray or read the bible in most all my free time at high school, and if you went to a public high school you know that had to be difficult. Though, they respected me. Alot of my friends then would try to avoid cussin around me, not that they were perfect at not lettin it slip, cause they tended to cuss a whole whole lot. Anytime someone said GD, one of my friends would always go, God don't need a dam he can walk on water. I also remember my mom trying to make me wear shorts in the summer and I refused, even when we were on vacation at the beach. I remember burning some of my non-christian cd's at one time. I was really into the whole thing those few years. I remember being so glad to "have the truth". I remember worshipping all the time during church, just because I wanted to please God and worshipping and prayer and reading the bible and fasting was what I was told pleased him. So those were the things I did most of the time that I could. I've been complimented so many times on how I used to worship God. But, what I'm trying to get to is that, I think those not raised in it take alot of different stuff away from the preaching and such than those who were raised in it.
I totally agree with your bolded statement. That was true in my experience as well.
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