Changed Lives (Part One)

Yesterday at church I heard stories from two different people about how they became Christians within the past two years. Both people are in their early twenties and are still in university, I think. I'll relate the first story with this post...

I started singing on the vocal team at church this past weekend, in front of the choir with a separate mic. There was an alto singer and a soprano singer on the vocal team with me, and Bekki was the soprano. She mentioned during conversation that she had never gone to Sunday School as a kid, so I asked her about how she became a Christian.

A year and a half ago, she started at Western University. She was supposed to be sharing an apartment with another girl and another guy, and then the guy backed out and they needed another roommate quickly. They were able to get another random girl to join them, presumably from a waiting list or something. This other girl invited Bekki out to a debate at the university, the topic being something like "Does God exist?"

Bekki came away from that debate thinking that the Christian's perspective made a lot of sense, and she referred to the Intelligent Designer argument in particular. That evening, her new roommate left her Bible in Bekki's room and suggested that she read the book of John if she was curious.

Bekki did pick up the book that night and found that she couldn't put it down. It was fascinating to her. She did not grow up in a Christian home and for her entire life, she was quite adamant about having nothing to do with religion. She mentioned that she been messing around with a lot of things and, by her view, she was treading an increasingly dark path. Yet here she was, having heard the honest message of Christ and God for the first time and she was hooked. She became a Christian shortly thereafter.

(Continued in Part Two.)