For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, so that we could have everlasting life. 

As a child I heard this phase for the very first time from the mouth of my grandmother, A woman that would speak the Gospel to anyone who would listen, she spoke of God's goodness and what that meant for us if we would "follow" him until the end. She taught us about "sin" and how sin displeases God, oftentimes saying to us, " don't let the devil cause you to sin, "or Hell will become your final resting place." At the time, I didn't understand much about how to follow God and how to live a "righteous' life, but from what I had heard about "hell," I knew that I did not want to go there, and in that moment I decided that I would try to live a life of righteousness and follow God, I would treat people as I would have them to treat me, I would pray and go to church and be as "good" as a human that I could possibly be, because I believed that this alone would get me into "heaven."

How wrong was I. Although I attended church every Sunday with my grandmother and heard about God's goodness and his expectations of us. I didn't know God in the way that my grandmother and other religious folks claimed to know him, every word of the bible seemed like stories made up in order to scare children into submission to their parents. 'One of my grandmother's favorite quote from the bible that she spoke daily to us was " Children obey thy parents (Honor thy father and mother} Ephesians 6.