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FOTFLOL!!!!

Nobody worked on me and I wasn’t drawn away from the church.

I left of my own volition and years later came to accept Christ and was born again.

At that point, when I started going back to church, I began attending the Catholic church I was raised in. I also had gone out and bought a Bible, not because anyone told me to, but because I felt the need to.

And I started reading it on my own, not because anyone told be to but because I was hungry to know the word. I was not coached or *discipled* about those things. I just had the conviction that I needed to do that, from the Holy Spirit.

As I read and attended the Catholic church for months, I saw the disparity between what Scripture taught and what the Catholic church taught. And it grew wider the more time went on.

And I was not being coached or mentored by any Protestants and told what to do.

I began attending an Evangelical church on the invitation of a friend and vacillated between the two for several more months until I made the break with the Catholic church.

Someone who is not born again and does not have the Holy Spirit residing in them cannot understand the leading of him in ones life and the enlightening work He does in the heart and mind.

So, no. No formulas. Formulas may lure people from one denomination to another, but they save no one.

I left of my own volition and years later came to accept Christ and was born again.

You were "born again" on the day you were baptized in the Catholic Church. Scripture is clear that baptism is much more than a mere symbol.

In Acts 2:38, Peter tells us, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." When Paul was converted, he was told, "And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name" (Acts 22:16).

Was this because your family did not have a bible at home? I see nothing strange or unusual about purchasing a bible.