Ruslan KD

No.

People make fun of like,

evangelical churches and are like, hey, you know, there's no reverence, there's no art, whatever the critique is.

And for someone like me that came from a quote unquote high church setting, one, I didn't really understand anything.

It was like beautiful paintings and art, but I didn't get it.

And so stepping into an environment that like they're speaking to me plainly, we're not doing the liturgy in Armenian, we're doing it in English.

You could understand what the message is about.

And not only can you understand, it's actually relevant to you.

Like they're talking about

hey, you could take this biblical principle and apply it to your day-to-day life.

And then the illumination of the gospel message was like, oh man, like even though I'm a sinner and even though I'm clearly broken, I knew I was broken, that Jesus offers me an invitation to something better, to something transcendent.

That really resonated with me.

And so it was as simple as like, man, I don't know about this whole church thing, but like, Jesus, if you're real, reveal yourself to me.

And it was that simple.

If you're real, reveal yourself to me and I'll do whatever you want me to do.

So it just started there.

And because the environment was so different, it wasn't a challenge, but it was a challenge intellectually trying to ask all the questions.

It was a challenge in that regard.

Interesting.

Interesting.