Soon after I became a Christian I got quite swept away with the charismatic movement of the church. I remember the first time I was talking to a friend and heard that Christians were laying hands on people and healing their bodies through prayer. I had read about such things in the Bible, but I had no idea they could exist in this day and age! I was so excited and I felt a desperation to know more about it. Soon I began going to a “hearing and healing” night at a local non-denominational church that leaned more towards Pentecostal.…
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I remember the first time my husband and I took our family to a Christian church like it was yesterday. I was February of 2013, and it was Super Bowl Sunday. I was absolutely taken away by the love of God that day, and I went from a God-hating pagan to a woman devoted to Jesus Christ in a matter of months. We quickly fell in step with the Christian life: we began attending church weekly, as well as Bible studies and a life group. My husband and I were baptized and became members a few months later. The church…