There was no question in our minds that we could define ourselves as devout Christians.
I thought that someday I would enter the full-time ministry in my church. I was taught the importance of family prayer as our family prayed together each day. For many years my brothers and I assisted the pastors who conducted our Sunday services. I was baptized a member of that church shortly after my birth. Growing up in my family, we lived as devout members of another Christian faith. Upon arriving home she asked her mother, “Mom, are we Christians?” They scoffed at her response that she was a Mormon, a common reference to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When 14-year-old Cortnee, a daughter of a mission president, entered a new high school as a freshman, she was asked by classmates if she was a Christian. Christian churches with great variations of doctrine dot the land the world over. Christianity celebrates the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God the Eternal Father.
