Personal Narrative: Growing Up In A Baptist Church

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Growing up in a Baptist church, I expressed my emotions through worship. During Sunday service, I started my week by releasing any worries, thoughts, or anxieties gathered throughout the past seven days. Throwing my hands up in praise started to become my outlet, where I could speak to the Lord about anything. However, up until I was in high school, my faith was mainly private. It was not that I was scared or nervous to preach to anyone or share my form of praise; I was confident in my beliefs and was willing to help anyone that was struggling in their faith. However, I found it difficult to make it public and awkward to offer my words of wisdom or encouragement through the Word to anyone. I assumed anyone in church or who was a believer simply had the same thoughts or form of reverence as me. When the pandemic hit as an …show more content…

The one thing that comes to mind when asked how I convey my thoughts to the world is how sharing worship and prayer makes me feel. My testimony is my form of preaching to someone how my life has changed through worship. Ever since this realization, I feel the Lord pushing me to pursue the people who can rely on Him to release their consternation. Worship compels me to be in this pursuit every day and express the Word through my actions. Any struggle, anger, joy, and truly amazing things can be conveyed through worship, and my belief is that everyone needs to experience this feeling just once. When I see someone's life changed through their faith, even if not by my own doing, it brings me peace knowing another soul is in Heaven. The world, unfortunately, has painted a resentful picture toward passionate Christians, being seen as insane for having our beliefs directed toward “an imaginary man in the sky”. As a consequence, sharing my thoughts or feelings with someone struggling and helping guide them toward Christ is not an easy

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