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I have a Baptist story what about you?


In my story the primary source of my “God beliefs” was my church. Every week we gathered at “the house of God” and heard stories about God told by the “man of God” – an ordained minister. My church belonged to Southern Baptist Conference. It was the primary source of my beliefs about God – and I knew absolutely nothing about it. . I don’t know about others, but since that was where I heard about God and Jesus, I assumed it was very old institution. It had to be! The story of John the Baptist was in my Bible. He was the person that baptized Jesus!

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