Marcia
Active Member
I was not raised in a Christian home and I was not saved until later in life. My father was very intellectual and was an agnostic, and my mother was a nominal Christian, as far as I know. She never read the Bible (and disliked parts of it) nor did I ever see her pray. However, she did make me and my sister go to church. This ended up with me questioning it all and I decided in high school to reject Christianity and explore other beliefs, which I started doing in college, and that led to Buddhism, New Age, astrology, etc. until God intervened and saved me, at a late age!
The good news is that I was assured of my mother's salvation in a conversation with her the night before she died (answer to prayer), and my father, the lifelong agnostic, trusted Christ in the hospital, 2 months before he died when he was almost 80 yrs. old (another answer to prayer!).
I often have wondered what it would have been like to have been raised in a good Christian home -- I can't even imagine it. But as TaterTot said, it is part of who I am, and God used it and still is.
The good news is that I was assured of my mother's salvation in a conversation with her the night before she died (answer to prayer), and my father, the lifelong agnostic, trusted Christ in the hospital, 2 months before he died when he was almost 80 yrs. old (another answer to prayer!).
I often have wondered what it would have been like to have been raised in a good Christian home -- I can't even imagine it. But as TaterTot said, it is part of who I am, and God used it and still is.