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Modern ChristianityNow a day too legion(predicate) people are loosing their focus in life. We haveheard that people are committing suicide everyday around in ourcommunity. In many of these occasions, faith has played a big rolein saving many of these victims from the overwhelming pressures of oursociety. Religion has acted as a shelter that provides a peacefulsurround and hope for guidance for these woolly-headed victims. Among that,becoming a Christian is what many have sought for. Two years ago, aneighteen years old graduate(prenominal) school booster unit of mine who is a typical Americanteenager lived in a perfect family of four had tried to commit suicide.It was astonishing when I found that he almost killed himself after hebroke up with his girlfriend of six years. He simply thought that itwas the end of the world when this had happened to him. He thought thathis life would be no longer important and meaningful to this world.Luckily, at the very last moment of killing him self, his friend savedhim. It happens that his friend knocked on the door of the bathroom atthe right moment while he was trying to cut through his own wrist.After talking with this friend, who happened to be a Christian, he toldhim that there was a lot more in life that he should hold on to. He was then(prenominal) convinced that he could find what he had lost and would be able torealize how valuable a life is by becoming part of the big family,Christian, that is. He then became a born-again Christian in thefollowing weekend. My friend although knew absolutely nothing aboutChristianity and he had never even read Bible, finally join the bigfamily.Another friend of mine who happened to be a really mature guy, livingin his early 30s had realized that he was diagnosed with prostatecancer and was being told that he would not live longer than 2 years.Before he got this disease, he used to be really expeditious and hopefulfor everything that he did. After realizing how much time he co uld haveleft in life, his personality made a huge swift to the opposite. Hebegan to have no hopes in his life because he thought that he could diein any seconds. At that point of his life, he had totally lost hisfocus of himself and what is about to happen later on in his life. Oneday at the hospital, during a schedule psychological therapy thosecancer patients were urged to take.