Matt Clark

Philosophy

Mr. Pichette

3/13/2017

My Testimony

Like many other kids who have grown up in a Christian household, I accepted Jesus

Christ as my personal savior at the age of 5 in my kitchen. While I do not remember exactly how

the conversation went, it was mainly based around me asking key questions and putting logical

things together in my young mind. I do not want to discredit this moment, which shows how a

childs faith works, but this time of accepting Christ does not at all define my Christian walk. It

was nothing more than a stepping stone towards me being able to fully understand the decision

that I was making by deciding to accept Christ.

One thing that has always haunted me about my testimony is the lack of a single moment

in which I had a dramatic change in my life which spurred the rest of my walk towards where I

am now. Growing up in the church, I have heard so many redemption stories of how people

turned from a secular lifestyle to Christianity because of one big moment in their life where it

just hit them that Jesus was the way to go. This is one thing that I have definitely struggled with

throughout my walk, mainly because I dont have a before and after view of how Christ has

changed me.

Other than not having that one moment where I was just completely blindsided by Jesus

like some Christians claim to have had, another thing that I have struggled with in my walk is the

emotional aspects of being a Christian. In general, I am just not a very emotional person, and

that is no different when it comes to my faith. This did not really affect my view of my walk
until around junior high when I became fairly heavily involved in the youth group at my church.

I joined a small group that was built of guys each having pretty different personalities, and in

spending time with them I began to see the emotional connection that they would experience

with certain situations such as worship, prayer, and sharing their struggles. I am naturally a more

intellectual person rather than an emotional person, so seeing the dramatic difference between

those guys and me definitely had me self conscious about the validity of my faith.

This unsureness I had continued on from junior high until my junior year, where I had

the opportunity to take Apologetics with Mr. Thompson. In this class I was able to validate my

faith through logic and reasoning, which is how my brain works, and was able to become a more

confident Christian.

All of these events and experiences have made me into the Christian that I am today, and

while it may not be the most moving or interesting testimony, its what has happened in my life.

And I have accepted that there is nothing that I can or should do to change that.