People
Christians have a testimony, a story about how they were converted. Some of these testimonies are included here to show how a personal relationship with Jesus Christ has the power to change lives. Where a longer version is available, a link will be provided.
Liz,
Southport YL Committee Member
When did you become a Christian? -
When were you born? - n/a
I was brought up in a Christian family and always went to church, read
my Bible and was taught to pray. I thought that was enough and because
my parents were Christians and I did my best to be basically a good person
that was all that mattered. However, when I was 15 my Grandad died suddenly
and for the first time I had to face death and consider what that meant.
I realised that if I died I wouldn't go to heaven because of all the wrong
things that I had done. I had been relying on what I could do and boy
did I mess up so many times! All the wrong things that I done in my life
separated me from God, He hated all those things and yet He still loved
me and had sent His son to die for me on the cross. I realised that all
I had to do was to ask Him to forgive me for everything that I'd done
wrong, and ask Him to take over my life. Now I don't have to fear death
because of what Jesus has done, by dying on the cross for me. When I die
I know I will go to heaven to be with Him.
Simon, Southport YL Committee Member 
When did you become a Christian? - Summer 1984
When were you born? - 1977
Born into a Christian home (both my parents were Christians), I was brought up going to Church and Sunday School. I heard the Gospel and many Bible stories about Jesus and characters from the Old Testament, but I wasn't a Christian. In 1984 my parents took me with them to Anfield, home of Liverpool Football Club, to hear a preacher by the name of Billy Graham. To say that my life-changing (or should that be life-saving?) moment was at the ground of Manchester United's greatest rivals and didn't involve my team is perhaps an illustration of the impact on my life. Football, after all, is only a game, despite what Brian Clough claimed! Not long before I went to Anfield, I'd been having a number of dreams that basically showed a widenning gap between myself and my parents. I realised they had something I didn't. Looking back now, I can see how it referred to the different eternal home where we were headed.
I was baptized at the age of 16 and it was only really then that my relationship with my Saviour began to grow more obviously. Becoming a Christian wasn't only a final, definite change, but also the start of a journey. Each day is about walking closer to God than the previous one. Its about going forwards safe in the knowledge that you're not going to be alone, ever.