All the repeating the right words of the sinners prayer and really, really, truly this time meaning it never made me a Christian. Being “born again” again and again and again, did nothing. I was still dead in trespasses and sins.

Almost a year ago now I was baptized. It’s made all the difference in the world.

That said, if someone tells me they are a Christian I believe them. I am not a Christian because I fear hell, I’m a Christian because I saw the beauty of the way of Jesus.