to answer your question, Latimer--my fellow Bear fan-
I was raised in a Christian home. I was raised in an environment where me and my dad would routinely go out on the street and witness to the people hanging out on the main drag. This was when I was very young. I also attended Christian school through the sixth grade, I then left to go to public school so that I could play sports.
I was raised going to the nursing homes, ministering to the sick and dying. I have the utmost respect for the way my folks raised me. The took me out of the four walls of the church and showed me what it really means to be 'Christ Like'.
And, by the grace of God, I have not turned away from this.