Emphasis Preaching Journal

I had no church relationship until the age of sixteen, except for those Sundays when my parents sent me to Sunday School. My father, however, became a Christian and a committed church member during my rebellious middle-teens. Instantly, we no longer hunted and fished on Sundays. Instead, I found myself attending worship, church school, and youth fellowship, so the church became the center of our lives as a family. Though I joined the church, I was not a Christian. For four years, I struggled with what that meant.