So, I thought I'd take a shot at writing a Testamonial. I was born into a Catholic family. I was an altar boy, studied my catechism, and went to church with my parents and older sister. Throughout High School I was more interested in girls than anything and began to question the Catechism as I couldn't connect the dots to my KJV bible. It seemed to me the Catholic Church had invented alot of doctrine that was not in my bible. I was a prolific reader ever since around Junior High School. I broke off from the Catholic church after High School, joined the Army (1965-68) and after alot of training schools, spent most of my time in SE Asia with the 1st Special Forces Group. When I received my discharge, I went to college on the GI Bill and became a petroleum engineer. I was reading the bible and alot of books on Christian apologetics. I felt an intuitive longing to find truth. I was still langouring in between belief and suspicion. I spent many years away from the church having fun as a competitive aerobatic pilot, sky diver, scuba rescue diver, sailing, fishing and hunting. I spent several years as a Deputy Sheriff/pilot in Oklahoma. I got married in 1975 and my wife and I had 2 boys and moved to Texas. I went to work as a Drilling Engineer for a major oil company and worked in 18 different countries over 30 years. About 15 years ago I finally reached the point where I became convinced of the truths of Christianity (slow learner). I accepted Christ as my Savior and repented my sins (as I still do daily). My conversion from apostate to Christian wasn't a flash of light or while drying the dishes. It was more like a slow cooking stew that simmered for a long trial before convincing me that it was done. I have attended many Christian church denominations and have become tired over the monotonous kindergarden level of preaching. I retired in 2008 and worked with the same company as a consultant until 2020. Now I am fully retired and 75 years old. I now study the bible, theology, apologetics and I ride my mountain bike every day and go fishing when I find time. I'm blessed in that our sons both built new homes within a few blocks of us. We get to see the grandkids alot and have family gatherings on holidays.
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