Mike's personal conversion testimony: depression before faith, joy and relationship with God after — and subsequent evidential verification
Q&A: Benjamin Acompo (skeptic) asks what evidence a 12-year-old Mike had at conversion beyond feelings
Mike shares his testimony: before knowing God he was depressed; after coming to Christ at 12 he experienced joy, peace, and a sense of ongoing relationship with God that was not limited to church settings. He acknowledges that if atheism is true this would be a psychological experience; but if Christianity is true it was genuine encounter with God. He then describes how, when he later tested his faith against evidence, the evidence corroborated his experiential beginning — the two sources of evidence (personal experience + historical/external evidence) converged.
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Reaching Unity In The Faith Without Authoritarian Control
The picture above represents not only the “bride” of Christ held back and controlled, but women in the “bride” of Christ held back and controlled. It is a great concern to me that there are many in the body who think that authoritarian control is needed to keep people in line and to keep the unity o
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Acts 18:24-26
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