Gods Attributes

Christian Kinard

Senior Thesis

Presented on May 21st, 2012

Part 1a: My Testimony

My family always was one to go to church bright and early every Sunday morning. We would wake up at 7 am, just so we had good seats. My brothers and I would struggle to sit through the service of course. Life continued in that way for a couple of years.

Things happened in my family that caused my parents to divorce at about the age of 8 in my life. They split ways and my mom got re married to a guy named Carl. He almost instantaneously took the father role over in my life. He was able to take care of us in ways we were never capable before. We continued in Christian school at our home church, and once I finished there, I went to Damascus high school.

I realized I was one of those kids who went to church because they had to, and who never really made the decision to accept Jesus for them-self. It was when I left private school that I realized that. I went to Damascus for about 3 months, and during those three months I developed a horrible reputation and got into the wrong crowd very quickly. When I look back on it now, I have never seen someone crash and burn so quickly. On that path, I started doing drugs, smoking a lot, and I really opened myself up sexually. I did something's I wish I could take back.

Well after my 3 months at Damascus, I was sent immediately back to Christian school. That's when I started at MACA. While at MACA, I continued on the same path as before, but I improved my sneakiness so I would not get caught. People knew exactly what I was doing though. I continued on this same path for a couple months. It was about the time that Zac Weiland had passed away that I started to think. I thought a lot about how he was so young. I also thought to myself a lot about where I would go after I died. It was that week that I came to a cold realization that the only thing I had waiting for me after I died was hell. I knew what hell was, and I...