Open Church: Introduce yourself and share your faith journey - all are welcome
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Greetings fellow Steemians.
Welcome to Week 5 of Open Church
Open Church is an initiative by @majes, @nextgen622 and the Christian trail community on Steemit. It aims to be a place where Christians on Steemit can hang out, encourage and build up one another, and reflect the love of Christ. The church is not a building, but is made up of people who have been transformed by God's grace.
Steemit is not all about money, but it's also a community of real people with real needs. So let us be a community of brothers and sisters that can Truly support one another with our real lives. Hope we can put aside the money element of Steemit and enter into authentic fellowship with one another.
Each week we will be putting up a new post with a new topic or theme for discussion. But feel free to come here just to fellowship and be a blessing to one another. Whatever denominational background your from, or if you're just curious about the Christian faith, everyone is welcome.
So feel free to share a link to your favourite worship song, share a word of encouragement, a prayer request, or introduce yourself. But please do not promote any posts here, or get into any arguments here.
Today's theme is please introduce yourself and share about your faith journey
In order to build a supportive Christian community on Steemit, let's try to get to know one another more. Feel free to share as much or as little as you like. And you can join us for some more fellowship in the Christian-chat channel on Steemit chat.
Be Blessed.
Welcome to steemit
Welcome to family :)
I asked Christ into my life in November 2014 and over only a few years His grace and majesty broke such strong chains that I was incapable to break and some I hadn't seen as chains. God has restarted my life and made me into a completely new person. Although my pride and fears have made this transition more difficult on me I truly desire to devote my whole life to Him. I am certain that He longs and is working to dissolve my pains. He has planted a good seed in me and I will walk along side of Him.
Thank you for your testimony @minera. Praise God that He broke the chains... that was prophesied about Him before he even laid down His life for us.
Isiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn"
Looks like I missed this post. My name is Markus. I'm 30 years old from Australia. You can read about my faith journey HERE. Upvoted and RESTEEMED...
Since I started following you, almost as soon as came onto steemit, I saw that you frequently put links in about your testimony. I am so glad I now went and read it, what a wonderful testimony. How powerful God is to make you immediately fall in love with Jesus Christ against everything you were learned to believe. This is such a message of hope, no one is beyond saving by our Lord and Master Jesus Christ.
Great initiative! Look forward to fellowshiping with other Christian member of steemit. God bless. Upvoted and resteemed.
Thanks @majes, @nextgen622 and the Christian trail community to initiative open church.I am happy to know that this open church made up of people who have been transformed by God's grace.I am a Roman Catholic Christian from Birth and I believe in Jesus.I have a small family having two children.I am not a rich,I have no job,But I manage my family happy with the grace of God.As a Good Christian,Everyday early morning I go to church and attend the mass with my daily's prayer "God please mercy me and give sufficient money to me so that I will fulfill my families needs". I know one day God will give me.I strongly believe in my God. Thank you for sharing and creating this Christian community.
Let's make our christian community very strong and spread the Holy word's of Jesus Christ in everyone. with thanksgiving in Jesus name @amimohan
@amimohan thank you for sharing your story and life. I will pray with you for a job and that God will supply your needs. Just keep your eyes on Jesus and He will calm the storm!
Now I have reached the end of the comments and it is my time to share. I was so fortunate to grow up in a Christian home and at the tender age of 12 on a church youth camp, I gave my heart to Jesus. I am so thankful to the Lord for being able to do it at such young age and that He has been on this path with me for so long. Right through my Christian walk I experienced times of being very near to the Lord and at times very far but praise His wonderful Name as He always draw you near again. I stand on His promise in Phillippians 1: 6 "being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;" I thank God for this community.
Amen. Thanks @hope777 for sharing your story, and for your contributions to the Christian-trail family here. Thanks for taking the time to comment on all the posts.
The pleasure is all mine. God bless!
I have always identified as a Christian, but will admit that I didn't fully know what this meant until about 1 year ago.
This is when my wife and I started going to a different church and it all started to click. I felt the presence of God for the first time and accepted Jesus in my heart.
Prior to that, I think that I was just going through the motions but wasn't fully engaged and truly believing.
I can see now that certain people and events have lead me to this point, including my wife and daughter. God has blessed me so much throughout my life and I can't wait to see what else He has planned!
Praise Him tnx for sharing..
Thank you for sharing. Your testimony is the echo of lots of others, being in the church but did not truly know God. I am so glad you find him!
My faith journey has been rough; but I wouldn't give up the journey for all the world!
No matter how rough it is. God is so faithful, He just keeps on drawing us near.
Hi...my family wasnt religious at all when I was growing up ...I remember one time I went to church ..I was about 9 years old with a neighbor family ...we sat in the back I sang so loud...lol at the end of the service the head of the choir came to me and asked me to join ...I wanted to so badly but when I went home and told my mom ...I wasn't allowed to go to church again...fast forward to my twenties...I attended a couple churches randomly ...I always felt a strong pull...I sometimes just burst into tears not knowing why ...well a couple years ago in 2014...I was going through an awful divorce married 21 years to an abusive man...living with my sister...which wasn't a positive place for me either she had alot of drugs alcohol and traffic...and one day my mom came over with a flyer in the mail about a series of seminars on the end of days and she wanted me to go with her...I was shocked ...I didn't know what to say ....I thought it must be the end if my mom is going to church...lol well we started going 3 days a week for about three months....we loved the pastor he spoke in a way that it was so clear to us I would leave and tell everybody what I had learned about 100× I was so excited even my sister started going ....a year later my mom ..sister and my myself were baptized in our church...we are Seventh Day Adventists....I still have lots to learn I attended a year of Bible marking classes and studies...went to my first womens retreat in Utah last year ...what an experience. ..we have 5 pastors ...but Pastor Boles is my family now ...and this is my story :) :) Kayleigh
Wow praise God for his grace leading you to himself. Thanks for sharing. God bless you sister.
I'm so grateful everyday ...I will never stop needing him in my life ....I will never stop learning or sharing his word ..thank you and God Bless :) :)
Wonderful testimony Kayleigh. I am so glad that you found Jesus Christ!
Thank You @hope777 so am I ...if you knew some of my history...you would definitely understand the depth of how much I do :) :)