Age of Conversion and the Faith of the Family

Originally published at Youthworks.net on 19th April, 2024. Republished with permission.

I’ve got one of those—so called— “boring” testimonials. I look back on my life as a disciple of Jesus, and while there have certainly been ups and down and various family members, ministers, school teachers and friends that God has used to spur me on towards love and good deeds, there really hasn’t been a time when I haven’t had an awareness of Jesus as God, Saviour and King.

As a teenager though, I attended a church with a youth ministry that was filled with kids from the local high schools, the majority of whom came from non-faith homes. By God’s kindness and grace, many of these teenagers became Christians, and several of them are still my good friends who I church with to this day.

My friends and I represent two common narratives of becoming Christians. There are many in our churches who have grown up i…