” From Darkness to Light!” ~Ephesians 5:8
Hi, my name is Janet Garrison. I grew up in Dayton, Ohio with three siblings. I first heard the gospel message when I was 12 years of age and excepted Christ into my heart when I was 13. I believed that I was a sinner and that Jesus had died on the cross for my sins, but as a young teen there were some areas of bondage in my life that I didn’t know how or was too ashamed to ask for help in getting deliverance from. When I was a young child I was sexually abused and remnants of sexual sin were still in my life. In High school I remember trying so hard to be a good Christian and thinking that I was being successful. my motives for joining bible studies, praying for others, reading my bible and other spiritually oriented activities, I didn’t realize this until much later, were based on performance. If I could learn, study, and read about Jesus and then try to do what he did enough then it would erase the quilt I still felt from the sins that I committed. Because no matter how many times I apologized to God and asked for his forgiveness I was missing the vital reason for his death. Grace, his salvation was a free gift not something I could perform enough to receive. It wasn’t until a devastating relationship after college that I finally received Christ as Lord of my life.
Hi, my name is Janet Garrison. I grew up in Dayton, Ohio with three siblings. I first heard the gospel message when I was 12 years of age and excepted Christ into my heart when I was 13. I believed that I was a sinner and that Jesus had died on the cross for my sins, but as a young teen there were some areas of bondage in my life that I didn’t know how or was too ashamed to ask for help in getting deliverance from. When I was a young child I was sexually abused and remnants of sexual sin were still in my life. In High school I remember trying so hard to be a good Christian and thinking that I was being successful. my motives for joining bible studies, praying for others, reading my bible and other spiritually oriented activities, I didn’t realize this until much later, were based on performance. If I could learn, study, and read about Jesus and then try to do what he did enough then it would erase the quilt I still felt from the sins that I committed. Because no matter how many times I apologized to God and asked for his forgiveness I was missing the vital reason for his death. Grace, his salvation was a free gift not something I could perform enough to receive. It wasn’t until a devastating relationship after college that I finally received Christ as Lord of my life.
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