'Time to Leave'
Published: 11 April 2023
Spiritual experiences
Context: This is a story from when I was eighteen, taken from a personal journal of key moments in my relationship with God.
When I was a teenager, I went to Carey Baptist Church with my parents and siblings. The church met at Carey Baptist College in the school’s auditorium. I was eighteen years old when, one Sunday morning, I walked through the doors of the auditorium and heard the words ‘Time to leave’. The words weren’t audible, but they weren’t mine either. About 6 months later I was telling Jules (a mentor of mine) about this experience, and he said ‘sounds like you should be gone already!’, so off I went to find a new church…