How long has everyone been Christians?

I was bought up in a Christian family, but only became a real, 100% Christian at Spring Harvest this year.

What about everyone else?

i was also brought up as a christian, bt i didn't really properly believe till i was 5, and then it wud be really strong after springy 4 a few months and die away and so on, bt this yr was different!!!! after springy i have stayed very strong in da faith bcuz of da forums!!!!! its been very helpful!!!!

same.

i've grown up in a christian family - with my dad being the minister at our church. @ springy each yar, i'b b like 'wahay! full of the spirit' then i'd get home and it'd all b different (cos then it was only my family and another family going from church). but the past couple of years have been different. last year, my m8 had a problem with her back/leg and was in a wheelchair/on crutches... but on the 3rd(?) night, it got healed and she didn't use the wheelchair/crutches for the rest of the week! i stayed stroger for longer than usual when we got back, but i did kind-of slip away a bit. then, this year, i enjoyed myself so much! and about 2 wks before i went, i found the springy forums, which have kept me going ever since i got back. a couple of my firneds who went springy kinda slip away wen they get back, nd they go back to swearing a bit (i dunno whether it's so they fit in, or just because they have nothing better to say). but i'm trying to break them out of the habit!

i'm still not sure if it's completely for real... but i'm certainly livin' it at the moment! i may even start thinking about being baptised!!!

i find that there's always something that you like that keeps you going, and helps you build up/carry on with your faith... for me, it's songwriting (you may've seen the song me nd ma m8 wrote, and the one i wrote the other day). i find it a great way to portray what things really mean to me!

wow cool! i felt so alive after springy 06, but then it kind of slipt away, then something kindof clicked at springy 07 and I'm not gonna let go of it!

ye, dont let go.
there's this amazin song from springy (many reasons y i remember it but cant be bothered 2 explain) and it goes a little like this:

oh no, you never let go, through the calm and through the storm,
oh no, you never let go, in every high and every low,
oh no, you never let go, Lord you never let go of me.

jus brought this up cos of ur comment bout not letting go.

ace!!!!

I LOVE that song! I'll have to go 'shopping' on iTunes soon!

ye gud idea!

Yeah lol. Need to make a shopping list! lol