For anyone that might be interested, I decided to post the statement I was recently required to write for my job application. It is as follows:
Statement of Personal Christian Testimony
John tells us at the start of his gospel, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things that were made were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made." John goes on to tell us, "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory…" In the authority of scripture it is clear that Jesus is the divine made manifest in human form. God, in all his majesty and authority, humbled himself to walk among his creation, as servant and savior.
Salvation came to the world through a righteous man, the King of Kings to those who knew the truth, punished as a convicted criminal. It was His divine assumption of a brutal capital punishment that freed us, the unrighteous, from our sin. He is both the impossible standard demanding righteousness of a fallen world, and the ultimate sacrifice redeeming the damned.
I first came to know Christ personally when I was 15 years old. I look back now at the person I was before knowing Jesus and see a wretched child steeped in rebellion, depression, and hopelessness. The sheer weight of God's undeniable call on my life pulled me out of that darkness into a vibrant world of grace and redemption. God's salvation came to me as a free gift through His son, by His grace, not my merit. I was no longer trapped in a bitter existence, but I personally felt the love of Christ through His Holy Spirit and I knew the intimate hope that seems to evade the hopeless. In one moment, my life changed.
Since then, I have experienced what C.S. Lewis calls 'peaks and troughs,' spiritual highs and lows that are natural for every Christian living in the world. Some peaks have been mighty and indelible, while some troughs have seemed heartbreaking and overwhelming. What remains constant is the knowledge that the triune God knew, loved, and preserved me even before the beginning of time.
By His grace and the empowerment of His Spirit, we believers have been made the vassals of His will on earth. Like the proverbial Good Samaritan, we are sinner saints, redeemed, justified, and crowned as children of God. The victory of Christ over sin and death is victory for us over apathy and isolation. Christ’s resurrection enables us to respond to His work in our lives by going to the widows, prisoners, and sinners, the hurting, marginalized, and otherwise hopeless with truth and light. It is because of His indwelling Spirit that we can take His love to every nation and fulfill His commandment.
Christ has changed my life by giving me clarity of purpose and a passion for those whom He loves. It is my prayer that everyday I may be that vassal of God to whomever He would ordain that I meet, wherever He would have me serve, doing whatever role He would have me do for His glorious kingdom.
Statement of Personal Christian Testimony
John tells us at the start of his gospel, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things that were made were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made." John goes on to tell us, "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory…" In the authority of scripture it is clear that Jesus is the divine made manifest in human form. God, in all his majesty and authority, humbled himself to walk among his creation, as servant and savior.
Salvation came to the world through a righteous man, the King of Kings to those who knew the truth, punished as a convicted criminal. It was His divine assumption of a brutal capital punishment that freed us, the unrighteous, from our sin. He is both the impossible standard demanding righteousness of a fallen world, and the ultimate sacrifice redeeming the damned.
I first came to know Christ personally when I was 15 years old. I look back now at the person I was before knowing Jesus and see a wretched child steeped in rebellion, depression, and hopelessness. The sheer weight of God's undeniable call on my life pulled me out of that darkness into a vibrant world of grace and redemption. God's salvation came to me as a free gift through His son, by His grace, not my merit. I was no longer trapped in a bitter existence, but I personally felt the love of Christ through His Holy Spirit and I knew the intimate hope that seems to evade the hopeless. In one moment, my life changed.
Since then, I have experienced what C.S. Lewis calls 'peaks and troughs,' spiritual highs and lows that are natural for every Christian living in the world. Some peaks have been mighty and indelible, while some troughs have seemed heartbreaking and overwhelming. What remains constant is the knowledge that the triune God knew, loved, and preserved me even before the beginning of time.
By His grace and the empowerment of His Spirit, we believers have been made the vassals of His will on earth. Like the proverbial Good Samaritan, we are sinner saints, redeemed, justified, and crowned as children of God. The victory of Christ over sin and death is victory for us over apathy and isolation. Christ’s resurrection enables us to respond to His work in our lives by going to the widows, prisoners, and sinners, the hurting, marginalized, and otherwise hopeless with truth and light. It is because of His indwelling Spirit that we can take His love to every nation and fulfill His commandment.
Christ has changed my life by giving me clarity of purpose and a passion for those whom He loves. It is my prayer that everyday I may be that vassal of God to whomever He would ordain that I meet, wherever He would have me serve, doing whatever role He would have me do for His glorious kingdom.
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