He repeated much of what the pastor said about Jesus dying for our sins, and he led me through the steps of salvation. And then he prayed with me. As my father prayed with me, I felt a liquid warmth come over me that started from my head and went down to my feet. I couldn't stop crying. I can't put into words other than joy to describe what I felt that day. And over the years, I would grow in my faith and love for Jesus
You're supposed to love every other human being unconditionally and understand that when they do things that are sinful, like we all do, because that's the whole point of our religion, our faith, is that God, the same God of same God, the abrahamic God, manifested himself on earth 2000 years ago and walked amongst us and was crowned, preached of love and kindness and empathy and understanding, and tried to elevate his people, that he was born into the Israelites, the twelve tribes
It's weird to think that I grew up in a christian environment, but really, the teachings of Jesus Christ were not instilled in me, believe it or not. So I left the church, or I left, graduated high school, became an adult, always carrying with me the flag of an agnostic, acknowledging that there is God. But I didn't know anything. Again, like most, I think uneducated or uninformed people will view the Bible as a book of rules, and it's not
Because the last month I've been really studying, really deep diving into theology and Bible study and all that fun, fun stuff where I'm learning so, so much about the actual scripture and learning that side of the faith. The encyclopedia. Encyclopedia. Like, knowledge that is like the power of having scripture, of like, oh, yeah, what about this in Matthew? And it just disarms people immediately. I'm slowly getting that. It's getting, yeah
I've seen, I have a friend in Kenya who's been sending me clips of christian church services in Kenya, and I want to film it so bad. Oh, Tammy, I want to film it so bad. I got the chance to work with the maasai people. I was packed in a room full of messiah women. They were jumping up and down and making noise with their jewelry. They were turning voices and their jewelry and the musical instruments, and they were all in harmony