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My father disowned me for getting baptized.

Jeffrey

My Dad said; “But son, were you water baptized?” I said; “Yes I was Dad.” And he said; “Jeff, you’re not my son anymore. What you have done to your people, you are worse than Adolf Hitler.” He said; “You are no longer welcome...

What you say affects your sexual identity.

Mary Jenna

That’s the key thing here and when someone says they’re gay or homosexual, that is now saying; “That is my identity.”

My corporate and political friends considered me nuts.

Bill

It would take me thirty minutes to work up the courage to say a word. I was just so inwardly petrified. I would have the bible at the corner of the East Village grill and I just couldn’t open my mouth. It was crazy.

Dreamed of suicide starting at 14.

Matt A.

And God clearly said; “You are going to die this year.” I remember it scared me.

From Judaism to Buddhism to Rosicrucianism.

Lisa

That voice that I have heard my whole life, that calling, that feeling of someone being next to me my whole life had a name.

Consulted a fortune-telling prophetic book.

Lisa

When I was about thirteen or fourteen I wanted some answers for my life. So, I started tossing the I Ching.

Followed my brilliant brother into atheism.

Javed

So I listen to them and they say, “If you have any problems, give us a call.” So I said, “Heck, let’s laugh at these Christians. “So I called them thinking I was going to make fun of them.

Thankful to not be rubbing snakes anymore.

Javed

I would still be rubbing some mouse or some snake or some elephants belly. But I don’t have to do that. I believe in the living God.

NFL role model living a double life.

Herman

I was out in the bars getting drunk on Friday and Saturday. I was hoping the people in church didn’t see me in the bars. I was hoping the people in the bars didn’t see me in church

Old fashioned preachers and mind control.

Joe B.

"I was on a road before I got saved that would have led me probably to my death."