Wes,

Thanks for your encouraging words. I do consider it a priviledge to have grown up in a Christian family and wouldn't have had it any other way. Mainly, I was pointing out that for people who grow up in a Christian family it is often hard for them to know when they became a Christian. I agree that the more you see of God's holiness and perfection, the more of a sinner you feel like. But this knowledge helps to point me to Christ more and more every day. I am currently reading "Religious Affectations" by Jonathan Edwards and he has a lot to say about this topic. It's a very good book. It's funny you mentioned Philippians 1:6 because it was one of the verses I am considering using. It's one of my favorite verses and is always very encouraging to me.

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(Jonathan Edwards: Religious Affectations) The more a true saint loves God with a gracious love, the more he desires to love him, and the more uneasy is he at his want of love to him; the more he hates sin, the more he desires to hate it, and laments that he has so much remaining love to it; the more he mourns for sin, the more he longs to mourn for sin; the more his heart is broke, the more he desires it should be broke the more he thirsts and longs after God and holiness, the more he longs to long, and breathe out his very soul in longings after God: the kindling and raising of gracious affections is like kindling a flame; the higher it is raised, the more ardent it is; and the more it burns, the more vehemently does it tend and seek to burn.