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My dad was a pastor of a small church in Colorado and my mother was extremely abusive to both my brother and I mostly physically, but also mentally. I never understood how someone could praise the Lord on Sunday morning, then turn around and beat their children on Monday all in the name of Jesus. From Colorado we moved to California where I was enrolled in a private Christian school where both my parents worked. Needless to say, I hated church. Because of the bullying, by the time I was in the 8th grade I became very suicidal, and even attempted to take my life.
I went to church, heard the same sermons I had heard times, but was still never moved. So I would read the Bible looking for contradictions, I would listen to sermons only to find the faults in them. I was lying to myself. So I stopped going and for 2 years shut God out completely. Then my daughter was born, and my whole life changed.
After nearly losing my wife in the birthing process I remembered praying and asking God if he is real- and if he loves me- then to save my wife, and daughter, and he did. Because of that, my wife finally convinced me to go to church, and I went, but I walked through that door with doubts, and shame. But the moment I walked in, I felt something I had never felt before, it was Gods presents, and overwhelming grace. I rededicated my life put down the drugs, picked up my bible, and have been so madly in love with God ever since!!
