Personal Narrative: How Religion Changed My Life

One thing that changed my life was my decision to follow Jesus and get involved in church. This event changed me a lot in many ways. This positively impacted my life by opening my eyes to different ways of seeing things and i had a different perspective of life, people, and many situations.

All my life i attended church. From the day i was born i went to church with my family. My perspective on religion as a young child was mostly about rules and learning about stories in the bible. I was pretty afraid to do certain things because i was afraid of what my family would think, because the church had expectations for certain things. I remember one time i colored my nails with a marker and i was afraid the pastors would see on Sunday for i shook their hand with my left hand, pretty funny to think about it now. My source of learning who Jesus was through my family, or through my Sunday school class. …show more content…
She wanted me to go with her, but i was scared because of what my grandparents would say. I finally decided to try it out one day. When i got there everything was pretty cool and new, there was lots of modern things and lights and big screens and it felt pretty cool. I wasn't ready to try out the children's class yet because i didn't know anyone there and there was a lot more people there than my old church. My favorite part of the church was the music, I loved it. When i finally decided to go in to the children's class it was even better. They played a lot of cool games, and everyone was so nice and funny. The biggest thing was i earned how to apply what i learned to myself and connect with the stories in the bible in a real life way,instead of just hearing them, it gave me a much greater appreciation of them.Later that year i went to camp with the church and i felt a deeper connection and felt like i was really learning who Jesus was and that he was real and wasn't just a story in a