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How Readest Thou? Part 4- Line Upon Line – Trusting in Jesus
Question: How did the Lord lead you to Him?
Answer: I was raised in a Lutheran minister’s home. My dad was a conservative Missouri Synod Lutheran pastor already for 20 plus years when I came along in 1959. He continued to preach into his eighties.
Though I was told otherwise, (in keeping with their Lutheran tradition of infant baptism), I do not count myself born again until I was 22. But being surrounded by God’s Word and sometimes listening on Sunday’s growing up, I was certainly familiar with Scripture, and I’m confident that it did not return void. Because of this, as I got older, I never doubted Jesus was the only begotten Son of God Who died for our sins and rose from the dead, ascending to the right hand of the Father. I never wrestled with the truth of the Triune God. I never doubted that Jesus is God with the Father and the Holy Spirit from all eternity. Even though I didn’t doubt, I definitely did not fully understand it either.
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Question: How would you say the Lord led you to Him?
Answer: The answer has varied in my lifetime considerably. I was raised Catholic. And not marginally so, but total immersion in the context of 12 years of Catholic school. Of course, part of our instruction was the constant reminders that there is only one true church, and it’s Roman Catholicism.
Armed with that at a young age, I presumed I was in the right room, and those who were not Catholic were hopelessly lost, or at least unaware of their lack. I lived the life of Holy Obligation – good works, Mary worship, sacraments, and good attendance at all the right times. But was I told to turn to the Bible, with its power, to show me where I went wrong? No. We were told not to read it because we wouldn’t “understand it”. While the understanding part was not necessarily wrong, being told not to read it was certainly the most memorable part.
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