I promised my mother and father that I would go with them to church today for Easter service and didn't think much about it.
Now let me back track. Since I was about thirteen I have been questioning religion. Just being a skeptic. Maybe it was because I was a teenager and wanted to rebel, and maybe it was because I was in an awful spot all of those years and just started to question everything.
Now, fast forward to today. We show up at church and it seemed like the normal Sunday service. We grab some snacks, get our songs/serman sheets, and get our seat. The band played all the songs on the song sheet and we bowed our heads to pray. It was when the preacher started reading scripture that I knew today was going to be a bit different. Today was all about the Resurrection of Jesus, naturally. When the preacher asked everyone who wanted to profess to the Lord that we would like to accept him into our heart and fully into our lives I bowed my head. He wanted us to silently pray because after all, it is between us and God, no one else. As I was praying, I got this overwhelming feeling as though I could start hyperventilating at any time. From that point of the service to the end tears were flowing and I was getting almost light headed with this overwhelming feeling. No matter how many times I had been saved before, today I officially became a born again Christian.
After the service we went outside for a few people to be baptized. It was amazing to watch. I wanted it so bad it took everything in me to stay put and wait until I was eligible to be baptized. This feeling is amazing, I can't wait to go to church next week.
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For James' Easter service they got to go to the house of Abraham. I'm not too sure on the details of the service, but he said it was a very cool place and quite an experience. Below is a picture of the remains of the house of Abraham where James went to the Easter service:
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