Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ everyday life.

In this week's connecting clip of the week, we'll hear a snippet from Paul and Shelby's interview with guests Julie Lowe on the Connecting podcast.

In this clip, Julie discusses what it was like growing up in a Christian home as the daughter of a Christian school's headmaster.

To hear the full episode, check out the Paul Tripp podcast episode 355.

Here's Paul Tripp, Shelby Abbott, and Julie Lowe on this week's connecting clip of the week.

Well, you talked about, like, coming to know God is more of a process.

And I know that there are some people who are like, yeah, I remember the exact moment that that happened for me.

Like, I was 19 years old. that happened for me. Like I was

19 years old. I prayed a prayer. Not that that was magical or anything like that, but I had this

moment where I knew that like I went from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. Yours was

more of a process, a gradual thing. Was that during middle school, high school? Was that even

started younger for you because you were in the

context of being the headmaster's daughter at a Christian environment? Yeah, probably all of that.

You know, it makes it hard even as I talk about, think about it is I was, well, I'll give you two stories.

My parents tell a story of being in kindergarten and

they had a birthday party for me and they said who do you want to invite I start listing the names

of people in the class and they're like none of those were my friends and uh my mom said well why

those people and I said well because they don't have any friends oh isn't that sweet that sweet? You know, what a godly six-year-old I was. No, I was just being me. We also lived a block down from the

SPCA. And for reasons I still don't understand, people would never take the dogs or animals

into the SPCA. They just drop them off and leave them there and they'd be

roaming around the neighborhood and consistently find themselves in our yard. And so here would be

this little girl weeping, please can we keep the dog, please can we keep the cat, please can we

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