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Rosie's Story

Rosie got baptised when she realised Jesus wasn't asking her to be perfect, and now shares her faith by living her life for Him

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Rosie's Story

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Rosie got baptised when she realised Jesus wasn't asking her to be perfect, and now shares her faith by living her life for Him

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He loves us no matter

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where we've come from

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and no matter what we've done.

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My name's Rosie and this is my story.

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When I went to uni, I never really went to church in term

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time but when I went home I went to my home church.

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And I did that for about three years,

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and it was fine and I was enjoying my life.

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But I didn't realise how far I had

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kind of strayed away I suppose from the church.

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I was living much more for the world and that kind

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of lifestyle rather than who I'd been called to be by God.

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It was more I would say after uni, in my final year that

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I really had just a deeper understanding of why I wanted

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to be a Christian, and really owned it for myself.

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It was more of my personal faith.

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After uni, I was working away trying to get

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into conservation and just couldn't get anywhere at all.

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And then randomly this job in Stirling came up,

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for three months, so I was like,

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"oh, I'll just go to Stirling."

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And I got the job,

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and it wasn't really what I wanted to do a hundred percent

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and here I am about two and a half years later.

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I was baptised just December just past.

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So I'd been wanting to get baptised for a while.

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I just got to a point, I was like, "oh I'm 25,

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and I've always believed in God,

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I don't know why I've not been baptised".

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Because in the Bible it says believe and be baptised.

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And then I'd been like, "oh yeah, I believe and then I'll-"

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I kind of, I don't know why but I thought

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I needed to get my life together,

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I needed to become perfect or become a really good,

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perfect Christian and then get baptised,

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and it doesn't work like that, God's not asked us

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to do it like that because,

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yeah no one's going to be a perfect Christian.

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I feel I share my faith with Jesus

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through living a life for Jesus.

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Some of my best friends are non-Christian,

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and I think just living a life for God

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and them seeing you getting excited about Jesus

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and excited about God is just so fantastic

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and seeing that it isn't weird to love Jesus.

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It's really normal and it's really fun.

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Everyone has a story to share about their journey with God,

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so even if you have always known God,

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you still have a journey because everyone's life

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is different, and yeah you can help people who maybe are

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struggling with their faith through sharing your story

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and inspire them maybe to believe in God.

October 2019
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University students
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