Almost immediately, I had this distinct sense that I no longer really “fit in” anymore with Evangelicalism, either at the church in which I had grown up (particularly the youth group) or at Wheaton Christian High School. By the end of that summer, I decided to get baptized.
The Christianity that Lewis discussed made sense to me- that Christianity was challenging and appealing. It was then that I read Mere Christianity by C.S. During the summer after my junior year in high school, I guess you could say I had an initial “crisis of faith,” and I proceeded to rethink what I really believed. I grew up in an Evangelical family, went to an Assemblies of God/Evangelical church, and attended Wheaton Christian High School. In fact, I lived pretty much at the center of it, in Wheaton, Illinois. I grew up within the Evangelical world of the 70-80s.
