Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Modern Religious Experience: Reflection Question #1

Modern Religious Experience: Reflection Question #1: "According to Mircea Eliade religion has 'not vanished without a trace; [it] has contributed toward making us what we are today and so, after..."

Religion has played a role in my personal history since the day I was born. My dad was a pastor at a large Christian Korean church in California. So I spent most of my childhood days going to church with my parents and going to Sunday school on Sundays and VBS during the summer. When I turned 4 my dad got the calling to become a missionary and decided that our family would move to Russia. So I spent 7 years of my life in Russia. After that our family moved to Korea and my parents have been training people and sending them out to the Middle East.

As you can see Religion has played a huge role in my life and I grew up accepting everything about Christianity. I didn’t question it because that’s what I had been raised up in a church society and I just accepted it as fact. However after I moved to Korea I questioned a lot of things and I realized that I only knew a superficial level of Christianity. I realized at a certain point in my life I had stopped making progress in my faith. I barely knew any scripture that would back up the things that I believed in. And to this day I am seeking to further my relationship with Christ.