When I look back at what I thought was living, I'm amazed at the price I choose to pay. My name is Josh, I'm 18 yrs. old and a senior in high school. My testimony started when I was about 13 yrs old (b/c that’s when Jesus became REAL to me). Yea, I grew up in a Christian home, but does that make you a Christian? Yea, right. The second I realized that I was living a RELIGION and not a RELATIONSHIP, was when Christ was all the sudden REAL to me. It was hard to distinguish the difference b/t the two for so long because I seemed to know all the "Sunday School" answers. I knew the "do's and don'ts". I knew what to say and when to say it. It all amounted to this....

"If I speak in tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbol. If I have the gift of prophesy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I AM NOTHING." I Corinthians 13:1-2
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