[QUOTE="enterawesome"][QUOTE="R-A-W-R"]I grew up with great parents despite my dad's hidden alcoholism (I never even knew about it until high school) and one brother. My mother is a great Christian woman but due to my father I was only partially brought up in the church setting. Though I wasn't sure what I was really doing at the time, I apparently became a Christian in the sixth grade. I say apparently since I only remember my baptism.
As time passed I wanted to be a "good Christian boy" so I slowly became more involved in church though questioned many aspects of it. Despite my hidden questioning, almost agnosticism, and love of art, I felt "called" to be a church leader. Thus, I began teaching Sunday school and eventually went to college to become a pastor. In college, I fell deeply in love with a cute little redhead. This relationship was idolatrous and adulterous but regardless, I began saving up to buy an engagement ring. She eventually left me and I was devastated.
About this time my faith actually became real. I was devastated and my "life" had left me. Thus, who did I have but God? Even though I was studying to become a pastor, it was then I surrendered my life to him, changing my life forever. Now my life has been transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ and my life's mission is to give people the very same thing that has given my life purpose and hope. I seek to do this via starting churches in the urban North and possibly use my artwork as a medium for teaching biblical truth along the way. I'm now a seminary student preparing for this life of service.
I don't know if I should feel depressed or happy for you... :? Anyway, I was raised Catholic, though I don't always agree with the good book, I believe in God and follow the teachings of Christ. I have many, many, many aquaintances, but few real friends. I love video games to death, even if I can't always afford a lot of them. I'm sarcastic, witty, and sometimes kind of a jerk if you really press me with stupidity or failure to understand reason. My parents divorced when I was six, and now I go back and forth between Saint Louis to see my mom and Chicago to see my dad. Right now I'm 13 in 8th grade, pumped up for Christmas, and just enjoying life. In the meantime, I have to work up the courage to ask out a girl I like and convince a friend of mine to lay off certain illegal herbs. chill...weed isnt as bad as the man wants you to think...dont get involved in middle school relationships..trust me..they always end up bad...i would know. 
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