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Adrift

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When I met him I was eighteen years old sitting with my mother in a television studio watching her favorite Christian program being broadcast live. I had just graduated from high school and was not sure what direction my life was going to take. I was raised Lutheran and went to Lutheran schools. For nine years I not only attended church and Sunday school, but I took all the required religion classes at school and attended chapel weekly. By the tenth grade, however, not long after my confirmation of baptism and my first communion, my mother gave up making me go to church. During my senior year, though, I accepted an invitation to a different kind of church. Their passionate worship and preaching moved me to tears. I would later learn that their teachings were false, but their enthusiasm for the Bible got me going to church and reading the Scriptures of my own free will for the first time in my life. Weeks later, with her hand pressed against the hand of an evangelist on the TV screen, m