I dragged myself through the nettles, propped my frame against a tree trunk, took aim and fired. Then in a calculated but ignorant fashion, I shot my own team mate right up his gluteus maximus. I am a counter-productive paint-baller. It is better for everyone if I don't paint-ball. Everyone else wins if I remain at home instead of paint-balling.

“Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.” (Job 2:3)

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Before I went to university, I made a decision that I was going to tell people I was a Christian. "This won't be easy", I thought to myself, "some Christians are idiots and I am very intelligent." I was a bit arrogant back then. But I made my decision anyway and moved into my hall of residence.

After I had heaved the final suitcase into my room, the bloke in the room next to me knocked on my door. Pleased to meet my new neighbour, I said a very understated "hi mate" so as not to seem too keen. He performed similar greeting ritual and followed it by saying, "I've just had a flyer under my door from the f*#%ing Christians. I hate Christians!!"

Watch Tim's story about how he became a christian at uni.