Describe your how you came into a relationship with Christ.

I was born into a pastor’s family and heard the gospel from birth.  I was saved at the age of 6; one night while dad was at a deacons’ meeting, I was playing with mom and siblings.  I don’t remember what was said, but I remember that I very much came under conviction and started crying, “I don’t want to go to hell.”  My mom took me into her bedroom and again explained the plan of salvation.  I knelt beside her bed and prayed to receive Christ as my Lord and Savior, recognizing that I am a sinner, and only through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and my faith in Him can I have eternal life. I was baptized by immersion a few years later.

Growth is daily, as I read His word, as I walk with fellow believers, as I attend church (engaging in worship, and sitting under the Word), as I pray, and as I trust him in difficult situations. In all of these things I strive, and often fail, but also know that by His grace, He continues to sanctify me—it is after all, His work in my life.

Where do you stand doctrinally?

I find the New Hampshire Confession of Faith of 1833 to articulate well where I stand. I would also point to the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, particularly in this time where the Word of God is ridiculed or misinterpreted for cultural or political causes.

• New Hampshire Confession of Faith | http://baptiststudiesonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/the-new-hampshire-confession-of-faith.pdf  
• Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy | https://www.etsjets.org/files/documents/Chicago_Statement.pdf