Although I was raised in a Christian home, I don’t believe I thoroughly understood the faith until junior high when I accepted Christ as my savior. As we were worshiping, my youth pastor went up on stage and encouraged us that if we wanted to, we could pray alongside him and accept Jesus Christ as our lord and savior. I felt his presence immensely that night, and Since then I’ve been striving to grow increasingly closer and improve my understanding of him. As Christians I believe that we’re incapable of staying still in our faith. We’re either growing intentionally nearer or through indifference moving further away from God. Hebrews 2:1 says “We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.” God has given us many avenues to which we can grow closer through: reading scripture, prayer and service.
