✍️Getting to know Me Challenge

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I am letter C of this writing ✍️ challenge and my word is “Church.”  I have had some good church experiences and some not so good ones…

I remember church ⛪️ from a early age.   I started going around the age of 8 years old.   I went to Hillside Baptist Church.   It was actually on a hilltop. I got saved outside that church on a Sunday night in 1982.  

After that night I change churches and denominations. Ever since that time I have been in several churches sad to say. 

This is very difficult to write about because of the fact that I do not base my salvation or deliverance on church attendance.  People in churches and leaders are not perfect and it’s really not about being religious but about having a relationship with the Jesus…I have struggled with being religious in my past and have used that mask. 

 I am to the point where I don’t want to wear a mask.  I desire others to see me for who I am and being religious can be a mask well meaning people have used to cope… when I was growing up I hated hypocrisy….

God help us to be real and not have to put on mask…you don’t wear them as why should we?






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