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My journey to Christ did not start in the traditional Christian, church-going home. My parents did bring me up believing that the Bible was true, not just a book of fairy tales, but neither of them, at the time, really "got" what Jesus' sacrifice was all about.

I was a scientist in a farming community. I wasn't able to go out & play like my peers during most of the year, so I was obese as well. I felt not only unloved, but unlovable.

In the 7th grade, I read Chariots of the Gods by Erik Von Dänniken. Even though it seemed silly to some, it offered a way to reconcile "science" with the Bible.

On September 23, 1977, I was "encouraged" to go to a Christian tent meeting. I was "encouraged" in the way that loving non-argumentative mothers "encourage" people; my response was something along the lines of, "alright, if it'll get you off my back!" The speaker was Harold Hill, once a popular author. What engaged me was that he was a physicist who, as I thought of it at the time, "believed this God business." He spoke of "salvation," but never explained what he meant. I was completely unfamiliar with the term.

From that point forward, a war waged inside my head. I was suddenly aware of a real God who, as hard to believe as it was, actually loved me, but I was also aware of how "silly" that seemed to be from a scientific sense. It was as if there were two personalities in me, arguing on a regular basis.

The next big event came on Memorial Day Sunday, 1978. I was "channel surfing" -- or as close as one could do with a mechanical tuner -- when I came across The Old-Time Gospel Hour. To this day I don't recall why I stopped, or at least why I decided to stop there, or at least what went through my head ... but I stopped there. Finally Dr. Jerry Falwell explained to me what "salvation" was all about. Sitting there in my room that night, I asked Jesus into my heart and life.

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