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Spiritual Autobiography

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During a stormy night in Seymour, Indiana my mother led me in a

profession of faith in Jesus Christ. I was about six years old, but I believe

that by the grace of God, he rescued me from sin and death; and as time

went on I was slowly but surely being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. After

placing my faith in Jesus Christ, I did all of the things that I thought a

Christian should do. I was a good kid, who followed the rules and went to

church every Sunday with my family.

During my adolescence, preteen and teenage years my faith could

be described as mostly taking baby steps with a few leaps in between.

When I was in eighth grade I became a chaplain at my middle school. I

really shouldn’t have been a chaplain, but for whatever reason God has

placed me there and this experience helped me realize the hypocrisy in

my life. I was a spiritual leader in the middle school and it was required

that you had to have some spiritual maturity and clearly, I did not. I began

to realize that what I knew in my head about Jesus, I did not believe in my

heart so from there God began to reveal the depths of my brokenness and

I started to own my faith.

For the most part, my life was all about school, basketball and going

to church. But halfway through my sophomore year, God revealed to me

that my obsession with basketball was unhealthy and it was dictating my

life. So, God began to stir up inside of me a different passion, so my junior

year of high school, I decided to become a chaplain for our high school.

This was a trying time because I was balancing school, sports, friendships

and an unhealthy dating relationship. After my junior year, my girlfriend of

two years broke up with me and by the grace of God, God used this to

help me make another leap in my walk with The Lord and I credit my

brother Skylar and the youth group at my church. During my senior year of

high school, my oldest brother, Skylar, was my youth pastor and with his

help I got heavily involved at our youth group. I went to camp and on a

mission’s trip for the first time in my life. I was deeply involved in a small

group that my brother led at our house. It was an incredible time of

growth as I began to understand more and more the love

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