John Shelby Spong Quotes

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.

I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.

So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I made a personal decision when I was very young. I enjoy going to church without my parents. On Sunday mornings, I want to go. Bible studies on Wednesdays... I have a relationship - not just through my parents.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.

I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

I felt the Lord at a young age. And it was one of those things where that seed was planted, you know, when I was a kid.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I loved going to church. I enjoyed being a part of the choir and just doing things in and around the church. But as a young girl, I certainly enjoyed watching and listening to my dad.

I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.

It really wasn't until I was 15 or 16 years old that I realized that the church was always there; it was always a part of what we were doing, even if it wasn't at the center of everything we did.

I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations.

As a little girl, I was in the church chorus.

I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind of person that I want to become.

I got baptized in June of 2001, I think. But I always went to church camp, went to church every Sunday, went to Bible class.

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.

Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?