Bob Hazen Testimony
My Testimony, Part 1 (1951-1978) by Bob Hazen Chapter 1: Phoniness and Pretense I was born and raised in the moderate-sized town of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Up through my high school graduation in 1969, my family and I attended church every week, and if anybody had asked, I would have said I was a Christian. During my junior year of high school, I even tried to start a chapter of Fellowship of Christian Athletes at my high school, but for reasons I can’t completely remember, this never went anywhere. But looking back on this now, I realize I wasn’t a Christian in terms of various basic points – I vaguely agreed with the ideas that God existed, that Jesus was a special person who apparently was both God and man, that the Bible was some sort of record and guide – but it was all more a kind of vague, nonspecific background to what church was – a weekly get-together, with concern for doing right, for helping others, and for acknowledging this vague God. Looking back on my c...