Before finding The Lord, I was a New-Ager (hence my name as I would go into a trance-like state) and your poster-person for Extreme Liberalism. I believed that poverty was caused by the rich and that 2% of the population was hoarding 99% of the wealth, and that they should be required to 'share the wealth'.

It didn't matter what pagen gods I paid homage to, I was a 'good person' and that alone would save me from sin. I believed there were many different roads to Heaven and it didn't matter which one you took... after all, I believed (incorrectly) that all roads went to the same place,and that the journey was more important that the destination

I was a very vocal advocate for liberal-welfare causes, and didn't really care whos toes I stepped on,as long as my voice was heard.

But when you get down to it, I was selfish. I was all 'me me me... everything is about me' and did not see the larger picture. One of my girl-friends was a Christian and she worked on my every chance she got, almost to the point I was saying 'Shut up, I don't want to hear it'. One day she came to pick me up and I asked where we were going, and she just kept saying 'It's a surprise'.

Well the 'surprise' was her church was having a revival and I was angry and thought she mislead me, because the last place I ever want to step foot, was inside a church. But she encouraged me to just 'check it out, before I write it off'.

Well they had the 'call' during the last part and I heard a voice say 'Get up'. Of course I thought it was just my mind playing tricks on me until I heard it say 'Get up... NOW'. I literally felt a force pick me up by the arm and drag me to the Pastor and right then and there I fell to me knees and acceped Jesus and promised Him from that point on, to study His Word and only His Word