Antipas_14
Puritan Board Freshman
Hi everyone,
I'm a fairly new convert from Roman Catholicism, now attending an New Hope OPC in Green Bay, WI. I converted over the course of a year, it has been an amazing journey that still continues to this day. I believe I posted my testimony in my profile, but I will check that after this post.
I was wondering if any of you could provide some insight into my conversion and how to handle what I am and have been experiencing.
Over the past year, I have become more and more excited to read God's Word. I cannot wait every day to read the bible at breaks during work, or on lunch, or in the evening. I love reading writings of the reformers, puritans and Christians throughout the ages. I literally cannot get enough of it.
My issue I have been running into is, reading and meditating on scripture, has become overwhelming, so much to the point that I have a hard time at work concentrating on the task at hand. Even though I want to glorify God in the work that I do, it's becoming very difficult to focus on anything but God's Word. In the evenings, as soon as my wife and I get to bed, I want to talk about what I learned or what she has learned that day, and then go either in prayer or reading The Bible until bedtime.
At home, my wife recently converted from Roman Catholicism as well. She too seems to enjoy God and reading the bible/learning new truths, but not to the point that she can't focus on anything but God and His Word.
I have contemplated if this means that I am being called to ministry, and at times I feel it is, but other times I am frightened by such an undertaking. The major factor that has held me back is both my wife and I have quite a bit of undergraduate student loans, which won't be paid off for about another 10 years. Because of this, both my wife and I work full time, have cut expenses as much as we could to provide for our two young boys, both under 3 years old. So even if I wanted to attend seminary, I don't know how I could possibly do that with the amount of student loan debt that needs to be paid off.
My question is, is my conversion experience typical? Is conversion so overwhelming for a lot of Christians, or is this out of the ordinary?
Thanks for your time in reading this!
Luke G.
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I'm a fairly new convert from Roman Catholicism, now attending an New Hope OPC in Green Bay, WI. I converted over the course of a year, it has been an amazing journey that still continues to this day. I believe I posted my testimony in my profile, but I will check that after this post.
I was wondering if any of you could provide some insight into my conversion and how to handle what I am and have been experiencing.
Over the past year, I have become more and more excited to read God's Word. I cannot wait every day to read the bible at breaks during work, or on lunch, or in the evening. I love reading writings of the reformers, puritans and Christians throughout the ages. I literally cannot get enough of it.
My issue I have been running into is, reading and meditating on scripture, has become overwhelming, so much to the point that I have a hard time at work concentrating on the task at hand. Even though I want to glorify God in the work that I do, it's becoming very difficult to focus on anything but God's Word. In the evenings, as soon as my wife and I get to bed, I want to talk about what I learned or what she has learned that day, and then go either in prayer or reading The Bible until bedtime.
At home, my wife recently converted from Roman Catholicism as well. She too seems to enjoy God and reading the bible/learning new truths, but not to the point that she can't focus on anything but God and His Word.
I have contemplated if this means that I am being called to ministry, and at times I feel it is, but other times I am frightened by such an undertaking. The major factor that has held me back is both my wife and I have quite a bit of undergraduate student loans, which won't be paid off for about another 10 years. Because of this, both my wife and I work full time, have cut expenses as much as we could to provide for our two young boys, both under 3 years old. So even if I wanted to attend seminary, I don't know how I could possibly do that with the amount of student loan debt that needs to be paid off.
My question is, is my conversion experience typical? Is conversion so overwhelming for a lot of Christians, or is this out of the ordinary?
Thanks for your time in reading this!
Luke G.
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