I just found the Evangelical brand of Christianity I had known all my life to be rather shallow.Īlthough I would still be more or less in the orbit of Evangelical Christianity throughout my life, my spiritual journey from that point on took me more and more away from standard American Evangelicalism. It wasn’t that I found either one bad or corrupt, or anything like that. Almost immediately, I had this distinct sense that I no longer really “fit in” anymore with Evangelicalism, either at the church in which I had grown up (particularly the youth group) or at Wheaton Christian High School. By the end of that summer, I decided to get baptized. The Christianity that Lewis discussed made sense to me- that Christianity was challenging and appealing. It was then that I read Mere Christianity by C.S. During the summer after my junior year in high school, I guess you could say I had an initial “crisis of faith,” and I proceeded to rethink what I really believed. I grew up in an Evangelical family, went to an Assemblies of God/Evangelical church, and attended Wheaton Christian High School. In fact, I lived pretty much at the center of it, in Wheaton, Illinois.
I grew up within the Evangelical world of the 70-80s.
