Bure realized at the time, “Oh my gosh, this is super serious because Dad’s at church.” Her family started attending church weekly, and “it’s not like we were instant believers,” she said, “but I saw that my parents were just working through their marriage.”
“And I would sit every week, and I would listen to the sermons,” said Bure, “and I never really understood, like totally understood what they were talking about because I didn’t know Bible stories. I didn’t know God, other than God’s some big being in the sky that created the world.”
However, one Sunday the pastor invited people in the congregation to pray to make Jesus Lord of their lives, and Bure did. “I didn’t know all of what that meant,” she said, but nevertheless she “accepted Christ at 12.”
Bure shared that she and her siblings all came to trust in Jesus at different points in their lives; her father didn’t commit to following Christ until 20 years after the family started attending church.
“So you accepted Christ when you were around 12 years old,” Schnacky said. “But what was really the moment that you were like, ‘Oh my gosh, wait—God is not only real, but he really wants to use me, like, I have a purpose’?”
“I remember the exact moment,” Bure answered. She had her daughter, Natasha, at age 22, and it was at that point that Bure started wondering, “What am I going to teach her about God?”
“And I realized at that moment that I didn’t really know anything about God,” Bure said. “Even though I knew he was my Savior, I believed I was going to heaven when I died, but I never read the Bible.”
“I didn’t really have a relationship with God,” she explained. “Then when I became a young adult and got married, God was not a focus in my life, was not a focus in my husband’s life either. So it was being thrust into motherhood” that led Bure to start exploring her faith.
“I really need to know who God is,” she decided at the time. “And so I would open up my Bible, and it would look like a foreign language to me. I wouldn’t know where to start. I didn’t know how to read it. I couldn’t understand the context of things.”