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KJ52: Well, the initial thing that actually brought me to Christ was a conversation I had with a family member, who challenged me to find out kind of the Bible for myself. He had given me his Bible to read. I actually read the Book of Revelation, of all chapters, to read. And I remember reading the thing and for the most part not understanding what I was reading. However, I do remember getting to the very end where it talked about him wiping away every tear, and it showed my that there was a happy ending. It basically got me to the point of making me start to think. Through that process of God beginning to work in my life is, the irony was that I didn’t even own a Bible, but God began to work in my heart, and I actually came this close to becoming a Mormon, because I sent off for the Book of Mormon, read it, and said, “You know, I’m going to stick with the Bible,” and put it away. I actually got a Bible a couple months later after I’d given my life to Christ, and in six months had read through it from cover to cover. I was that hungry because I knew that this was God speaking to me. Whereas any prayer was me talking to God, picking up the Word and opening it and just going, “What are you trying to tell me, here? Okay, fine, I get it, I get it,” you know what I mean? And that early time of just staying in the Word, reading the Word, understanding the Word, memorizing the Word, still is what I do to this day. It keeps me focused.