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This page is just a little of what this blog is about and what I am striving for in creating it and why it is called the Supremacy of Christ.
In starting I will introduce myself. My name is James King I am 17 and live in a little old county called Wiltshire in the South West of England. where I attend a Baptist Church in Corsham near the city of Bath.
So how did I get where I am today? well first of all I would like to say it is by the grace of God I am here. As far as I can remeber I have believed in God, my parents were both Christians but eventually seperated and when that happened we stopped going to church altogether. I remeber going to Sunday school when I was little and hating it, and I went to a Church of England Primary school which wasn’t great either but as far as I can remember I believed in God. So after going through Primary school and getting out the other side I found myself in big school. where my whole life began to change. when I got into secondary school it was great I had new freinds, a new enviornment a new life in certain ways. But it wasn’t all great looking back. I began to get into bands playing guitar and doing gigs and getting in with the wrong crowd, I subjected myself to sin and some of the bad things in life and found myself becoming more violent and angry with those around me. although at the time it seemed great and I was enjoying it, really I was an awful person. Until one day it all changed.
It was mid April 2009 and I had a good day, I was walking through my room and on the computer some music was playing it was a hillsong tune, mighty to save I didn’t know it but as I listened to it and was going into my room and almighty force brought me to my knees and I began to cry out saying “Jesus forgive me, I need you, I need you.” It was an amazing moment God had broken me by his spirit and I knew I needed to follow him so I rose off that floor and have never been the same since.
In the next few months I found God was moving me deeply and soon I found myself going to Church with my best friend Callum Turnbull who was the one who had prayed deeply for me to come to the Lord and to Church with him. And praise God it happened. So over the next few months at Corsham Baptist Church I got heavily involved with the youth wantign to be a part of it, and soon on May 16th 2010 I was baptised into the body of Christ and found myself on fire for Jesus, I continued in my faith attending soul survivor and walking with God in what I thought was the way to walk.
It was all fine and dandy until September 2011 I left school after deciding in a matter of hours on the first day back the sixth form wasn’t for me. So I began my search for Apprenticeships to become an electrician. Then after 3 months of searching a being even more deeply involved in my own bible study and reading more, inparticuar Keith Green’s biography No compromise and another book called Rachels tears were key factors in changing me. But anyway after 3 months God had been stirring me and in the January of 2012 I felt God had called me to be a pastor and that is the Journey I am pursuing to this Day. hoping to give my everything for the glory of God.
So why the supremacy of Christ, well aside from it being a term John Piper a preaching hero of mine uses, the reason I choose this title to sum up the blog and my aim is having had Jesus change me so deeply and even more so supremely I feel the need that others should see this, and when others see how supreme He is my belief is that people will be changed and people will turn to Him and those of us who already believe will learn to enjoy Him more and strive for perfection in Him.
So I Hope you will follow me and keep watching this space for videos, updates and posts. Hope you enjoy.
God Bless
James