Alive in Christ - Testimony of an Ex-Catholic

My own testimony is that when I was twelve in 1982 I accepted Jesus at a beach trip with an arcade run Christian club. It was a thing where you paid three dollars and got two free tokens per day, two hours of unlimited video game play on Saturdays. The catch was that you had to wear this Jesus fish necklace if you wanted to get your free tokens. I wasn't yet a Christian, but was rather inclined to become one. My mom took me to Presbyterian Church and my dad was a Catholic in name only. My mom stopped going to church when I was ten. I wanted to give my life to God, but was aimless and had no idea how. So at this beach trip, the Gospel was presented, and an invitation was made to repent and pray the sinners prayer. I repented as best I knew how and prayed it, placing my faith in Jesus' death for my sins and then responded when they asked all who prayed it to come down. They gave me a Good News New Testament and sent me on my way after making some encouraging words. Two weeks later I moved sixty miles away. My mom would not take me to Church and my dad was worse about it. There were none in walking distance. So I did not go to Church until I was 19. I had been studying "religion" and decided to convert to Roman Catholicism and was involved in a rather "Old School" version that did everything in Latin and according to the older, and even more blashpemous rituals. As a result of hitting rock bottem spiriually from my own sinfulness, I was convicted of my sin and began to look to the finished work of Jesus Christ for my forgiveness and not the ritual cleansings of that evil Babylonian Mystery Religion. I gave my life to Christ again in 1997. I am a member of a non-denomination community church that is a fundamental Bible believing church. I have used other translations in the past but do not trust them and only use the KJV now.


	Testimony of an Ex-Catholic My own testimony is that when I was twelve in 1982 I accepted Jesus at a beach trip with an arcade run Christian club. It was a thing where you paid three dollars and got two free tokens per day, two hours of unlimited video game play on Saturdays. The catch was that you had to wear this Jesus fish necklace if you wanted to get your free tokens. I wasn't yet a Christian, but was rather inclined to become one. My mom took me to Presbyterian Church and my dad was a Catholic in name only. My mom stopped going to church when I was ten. I wanted to give my life to God, but was aimless and had no idea how. So at this beach trip, the Gospel was presented, and an invitation was made to repent and pray the sinners prayer. I repented as best I knew how and prayed it, placing my faith in Jesus' death for my sins and then responded when they asked all who prayed it to come down. They gave me a Good News New Testament and sent me on my way after making some encouraging words. Two weeks later I moved sixty miles away. My mom would not take me to Church and my dad was worse about it. There were none in walking distance. So I did not go to Church until I was 19. I had been studying "religion" and decided to convert to Roman Catholicism and was involved in a rather "Old School" version that did everything in Latin and according to the older, and even more blashpemous rituals. As a result of hitting rock bottem spiriually from my own sinfulness, I was convicted of my sin and began to look to the finished work of Jesus Christ for my forgiveness and not the ritual cleansings of that evil Babylonian Mystery Religion. I gave my life to Christ again in 1997. I am a member of a non-denomination community church that is a fundamental Bible believing church. I have used other translations in the past but do not trust them and only use the KJV now. God really has blessed me by saving me. I feel that my spiritual life so far has mirrored Israel. Before I was saved I was in Egypt. I grew some but had no direction and because of my sin I had my Babylonian captivity in the Roman Catholic Church. I am so glad to have come out of the Great Harlot! Alive in Christ