Narrative Reading

I have often heard the accusation that a Christian is - bounded. This has never made any sense to me ... logic and very little is needed to refute. But I suspect it has nothing to do with ... logic. But we will respond to this logic anyway. And since this is a personal story, I'll do ... personal.

A story

To start, I was not born a Christian. Nobody. I attended public schools in 1958-1971 in Wichita, Kansas. At that time, public schools are more academically oriented than today. In sixth grade, I entered a competition at the state level in both math and science. This additional need after school hours. I received an honorable mention in two (somewhere between 4th and 10th place). I think I was already in Algebra II. In high school I did well on the law and passed the tests of aviation ground training (but after a lot of air ... I did not pursue the granting of licenses). I always had a great interest in science (life sciences in particular) and loved studying evolution. I was also particularly interested in genetics. My last year I was named Outstanding Young Citizen by a group of citizens and also received an Army ROTC four years scholarship to a college in the country with an ROTC program. He paid for everything and even gave money. The government for you.

In college, I was originally very heavily in science - Physical anthropology, biology, chemistry ... but later, after two summers of selling door to door (and the love of money) has changed business administration - economics, accounting, etc. I took the guitar at 19 and soon found that I could write songs. It became my own domain to express my questions and frustrations. Part of my research during these years has been an aspiration to a kind of coordination system of all substantive information I was exposed. There were too many gaps aside in what I know now were secular worldview systems. When I was 23 years and five months, I started - in private - the reading of the Bible. Even if I sold Bibles door to door for two summers, and if I had any opinions on this subject, the truth was ... I had never read. This does not mean that I had never had contact with the "Christian" before. For example, ...

Once in Junior High, my best friend, Jeff, and myself - spent the week in a tent Revival Meeting - with healings and murders in the Spirit. In fact, we were out of the tent - sneaking in a split in the canvas - and was a great old time ... mockingbirds. One afternoon, as we were reliving the show "- and prepares for the night" showing "- I remember my mother warning lightly about our antics. Well, that night in the midst of our festivities, a couple of major us rather crude collar from behind, saying that since we had such a good time watching, they had front row seats ready for us. Well, next thing you know, two young "sinners" have been pushed into the middle of the hubbub. People were falling all around us - in what seemed to be seized - and then a woman fell into the arms of Jeff. What were already big eyes, almost jumped out of his head. It was also jumping around, but I can assure you - it had nothing to do with the mind. Needless to say, after our escape that night ... we left them alone. This incident did not earn to "Christianity".

But there were other contacts with Christians. A year or so high school, a child I grew up with "found Jesus." He then cleared all the hooligans us with his presence as "Mr. Spiritual" and "Mr. Deep." I s 've known since I was four, and I knew that in six months he would be back with us ... hunting for girls, among other things. Well, I was wrong. He was back in about th.