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Andrew Yeang Testimony

I’ve attended church since before I can remember. Week in and week out I was taught all the Bible stories, memorized the Ten Commandments, and knew what I was supposed to do and what I wasn’t. So from the beginning, I tried my hardest to do more right than I did wrong, and I tried to prove (more to myself than anyone else) that I was a good person. Clearly, I did not understand the Gospel. In 3rdgrade (2003) I said “the prayer” with my parents and asked Jesus to come into my life, but looking back, I’m not sure how sincere that was or if I actually understood what I was doing. I understood that Jesus had died for me in my head, but at my age, I don’t think that I knew it in my heart. I ended up walking down the aisle in 4th grade (Easter 2005), and I got baptized in 5th grade (September 2005).

 

Life went on and my “before Christ” life wasn’t much different than my “after Christ” life, but I didn’t realize it until I went to Discover Camp in the summer after 6th grade. I don’t think it was a coincidence that the theme was “Transformers” and that our lives were supposed to be transformed after we meet Christ. It was at this camp that I started to understand what this Christianity thing was all about. At that camp, God convicted me of my unchanged life, and it marked a turning point in my life. As I went through middle school and by God’s grace, I started understanding the Gospel. I understood that this perfect triune God created a flawless world and one day, man decided to sin and condemned the rest of humanity to burn in hell. I understood that because of The Fall, I was naturally sinful and deserved eternal death. I understood that God, rich in his grace, mercy and love, sent His one and only Son down to this Earth to redeem an ill-deserved people by living a perfect life, dying a painful death on the cross, and defeating the grave three days later. I understood that I could do nothing to merit my own salvation and that that gift was given to me by the grace of God.

 

From that point forward, I loved going to church to fellowship (not just to hang out), and I learned a lot of things ranging from theology to church history. I found a passion for serving and have helped out in Nursery/Preschool Praise/VBS for a couple of years now. I also joined Servant Team when I entered high school to serve the church body that I had given my membership to. I’m not saying that this Christianity stuff is easy, in fact, it’s quite the opposite. Jesus calls us to pick up our cross daily to follow Him and to commit our entire lives to Him. But despite this difficulty, I understand that living and following Jesus leads to my ultimate joy. This is why I continue to strive after Him with as much energy as God allows me to.

 

To this day, God continues to teach me more and more as I grow. He’s teaching me more and more about how sinful I am that I would continue to worship idols (anything but Him), but at the same time, in His infinite grace, He reminds of The Cross and it becomes more and more beautiful the more and more I realize how I need it. I’m constantly appalled by His endless love for me and that He still pursues me despite my sinfulness. I know that everything that has happened and will happen to me has been part of God’s ultimate perfect plan from the beginning, so as I look toward the future, I’m excited to see what God has in store for me.