"My Religious Experience " by Austyn C

Through my life Christ has had extraordinary and phenomenal impacts on me. His influence has allowed me to change my view on life and the effects and views on the outside world. Coming to Christ was placed upon me by my parents when I was a young child and would start my path to becoming more spiritually connected. I’m very thankful for my parents for doing so as I feel my life has greatly benefited from it. As a younger child, I knew that following Christ was good but I wasn’t so much aware as to how my benefits and practices of Christ would be challenged later in life. It wasn’t till my early high school years where I really saw the different challenges I would be faced with. These challenges ranged from decisions making with friends to making my own in tough situations. No matter how difficult the situation was or will be in the future I will always know asking Christ and knowing what is best in his eyes will help come out successful. If I ever find myself in a difficult situation or time period, going to the church with my parents for support always seem to be the most reliable option to me. Even though I go through trouble and hardship, church taught me they can be beneficial as they show how strong my faith is and to stay strong and not give up hope. They help my path with Christ stay strong and always increase in positivity. I feel I’ve also gained a lot of this strength in Christ from members in my church. The church my family and I attend is called Sunrise Church in the city of Rialto no more than fifteen minutes away from my house. This is such a pleasant church to be and the community of the church is very caring toward all that

attended. It’s such a comfortable and relaxing setting with many leaders to help. Over the years of attending the church, I’ve found myself to be more of the kind of person to observe and take in information from others and try to apply it to my life. I was slow to interact at first but over the years I’ve increased talking to others and finding out their walk with Christ. I’ve been able to this with some friends outside of Church also. Friends that I’ve known for many years have a strong passion with Christ also and we have been able to have conversations about different topics and even spread the influence to others we know. Communication with others about Christ feels to me the best thing that I can provide to others. This will allow me to teach others about what I know about Christ and how knowing Christ has helped me in life and allows me to gain information from others and compare the different paths people have taken to come to know Christ.