My Testimony

Hello, my name is Jamie Clark.  I'm a Christ follower, a husband, and a dad. I'm also the founder of J316 ministries, based out of the Columbia, SC area. I was born and raised in  North Carolina, and grew up as a nominal,  or cultural, Christian.  I went through many years thinking that because I said a prayer, and asked Jesus into my heart, I was saved.  I had no idea that I was actually lost. If anyone would have asked me, I would have said “yeah,  I'm fine,  I'm not as bad as, you know,  a lot of these people here”, and that I was sure that when I died I would go to heaven. However, that was not the reality of my life. I lived my life in rebellion against God, just partying and and doing all kinds of things that were diametrically opposed to the God of scripture, demonstrating just how rotten the fruit of my life was.  I had  spent  so many years through high school, through college, and then into my middle  adulthood  just living a life that was in rebellion,  even though I would have said   “I'm fine, I asked Jesus into my heart.”  I was on the broad road that was leading to hell and had no idea of how lost I was. So, through a series of circumstances, a series of events, the Lord brought me to SC, and into contact with the church that I began attending at that time, Grace Baptist Church. Shortly after, one of the deacons came over to my apartment one Sunday after church and shared the gospel with me. For some reason the Lord opened my eyes and gave understanding to my heart, just as he did with Lydia of Thyatira in the book of Acts.  I cried out to the Lord, repenting of my sins, and trusted in Jesus Christ alone as my Lord and Savior. From that point on, my life was changed. I no longer lived for myself, I no longer lived my life in rebellion against the God of scripture, but now had a hunger and thirst for His word and for evangelism, for a desire to draw closer to Him through worship, and sound theology, and sound doctrine. And ever since then, He’s been at work in my life to give me this hunger and thirst to know Him, and to make Christ known.