Posts Tagged ‘Discernment’

Question 1: Upon being born again, how did your view of God’s Word change?

I grew up in a very dysfunctional home where my mother suffered from mental illness. My home life was filled with fighting and violence. My father, a Swiss immigrant, came from a Methodist background so we attended the Methodist Church. He was on the local church board. I can remember get togethers my parents would have with other Board members at our home where there was drinking, dancing, cigar smoking and well, stuff going on that even as a young kid I knew was not in line with “church.” I could hear them from my bedroom. 

In the Methodist church they change the pastors every three years or so. I remember getting close to one pastor. He played softball with us in the church parking lot. A great guy. I remember him helping me through the confirmation process. Our two families got together, and he and his wife helped my dad with my mom. But then they were relocated, and the replacement was an old guy with no personality and a handshake like a dead fish. This led to my departure from the church due to disinterest. 

I always believed in “God.” When my mother would