I was a punk rocker from the 80s Antichrist Anarchist hated everything about Authority religion your uncle let me hide in his garage when I wasn’t saved someone was actually trying to kill me and I I needed to get away my wife was 7 months pregnant with our second child and uh she it was one crummy hospitals in La you got to see a different doctor every time and we were already there going and this doctor said your baby’s dead there’s no heartbeat and we think the baby’s been dead a while we’re like I was just here
a week ago we’ve seen a heartbeat can we do this again I’m praying I’m like this is we’re going to get a miracle God’s going to move and then all of a sudden um uh we go back and the baby’s [Music] dead well I just celebrated 31 years of pastoring uh I got saved like you said at age 19 uh as a punk rocker drug addict your uncle let me hide in his garage when I wasn’t saved someone was actually trying to kill me and I I needed to get away and I was still on drugs I got radically saved after 3 days on speed and I came
in that garage and I fell to my knees I was a punk rocker from the 80s anti- Christ Anarchist hated everything about Authority religion and and um I fell I don’t even know why I fell in my knees something pushed me down I said God if you’re real I’ve been shooting up Coke and heroin and other junk for I ow D twice time I was 16 so I lived on my own since I was 15 and uh I said one prayer I couldn’t even explain it I never drank never got high never smoked a cigarette didn’t have a withdraw I had hepatitis they prayed
over me the doctor said it left me he took me to church the next day I never left never left and uh got married at 21 and got s announced the pastor at 25 now you said you got married at 21 MH and people may not believe this but I was actually there at the wedding yes you were your mom and dad were the best men in Made of Honor at my wedding and your mom was at like eight or nine months pregnant with you so I was in there you were at my wedding none of these other guys can say that yeah that’s that’s incredible um like
Blown Away the connection of your family and uh and you what God’s done in your life uh very blessed your mom and dad were the home Bible my my wife was going to your mom and dad’s home Bible study wow you have this radical conversion you say there was no withdrawals you never touched any drug again after that point no nothing I burned I like a done it like I couldn’t explain it I knocked on the front door and I go something happened to me to your uncle I go I I don’t know what it is something happened to me I think that save thing
