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Hey, I don't know how you were raised in terms of religious upbringing, but the

tradition I was brought up in and I think a lot of you can probably identify with this is that

I was encouraged at a very young age to pray some sort of salvation prayer. In my case,

to ask Jesus to come in in my heart, yours might have been a little bit different to pray,

to ask Jesus to be your savior. And that's a big deal to parents, especially when I was growing up,

make sure that I have a place in heaven, my sister has a place in heaven. For me,

don't raise your hand, I prayed that prayer a lot. Just sort of an insurance thing,

like an end of every camp or kind of had a dip in the road. It's like, just in case,

Lord, I just prayed that prayer again. This kind of, and again, you have maybe something in your

religious tradition similar. Then, as a parent, of course, I did the same thing with my children,

we did the same thing with our children. We, you know, it's very important to us that at just

the right time when they understood enough, we don't want to wait too long, we don't want to go

too early, wanted our kids to understand what it meant to place their faith in Christ and

become a Christian. In fact, for us, it was pretty simple. We kind of decided if our kids were

Christians and they knew how to read, we're pretty much done here. That was just, that was just kind of

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