Write a story of your own, based on your personal experience.

I became a Christian in my late teens, having been raised in a non-Christian home. Through the witness of friends and family, I began to study the Bible and consider the claims of Christ. Although I understood intellectually what was required to become a Christian, my heart deeply resisted the truth of Christianity. I had been involved in what nowadays is called New Age spirituality, but at the time would have been characterized as eastern mysticism and
occultism. These non-Christian alternatives had left me thoroughly unfulfilled, but even so I was not ready to abandon them or embrace Christianity. Deep down I was angry with whatever God there might be. God was perfect, and I was imperfect.

God was serenely watching as I made a mess of my life. How could God understand human struggle, perched as he was off in some never-never land? But upon reading the Gospels it struck me that God, by becoming human in Jesus Christ, had fully taken on the human condition and real