Personal Narrative: My Favorite Baseball Player

I feel as though I have an interesting background as far as my Christian faith is concerned. I grew up in a household where my mother and I went to church every Sunday for most of my childhood, but my dad did not go. I could never figure out where he was on the religious spectrum, especially because my grandmother, his mother, puts some sort of religious packet in each of my birthday and Christmas cards. Religion is something that was also slightly shoved in my face, but only when it was felt to be necessary. As I grew older, we stopped going to church as often, and my mom would break out the bible to make me read it in the times I did things she didn’t agree with, sort of like a punishment. I have always believed in God and prayer though. I believe it is

We are all created imperfectly, so avoiding sin is something that will always be difficult, even with practice. The comparison to the baseball player made it all extremely relevant and clear to me. He explains that one cannot just desire to be like their favorite baseball player in their critical moments if they do not also aspire to be like this same player in their practice habits (3). I believe that this lifestyle change, similar to being an athlete, is something that will be extremely difficult for a long time. I was baptized when I was 8 or 9, and I am a product of the Anabaptist because I made the choice to be baptized. I was also a part of a nondenominational church which I think was beneficial because I was never taught simply one way of religion. Once I stopped going to church on a regular basis, God started to slowly escape my life, and I became less and less religious. So what I believe, is that my conversion to Christ gradually increased over time, and then slowly decreased, but as of the past few years, it has been increasing