Drew - All hell broke loose when I considered God - ComeOnLetsGo
"I was really trying to explore and find out if God, if God was real."
Allison - Felt God's presence the day Dad was killed - ComeOnLetsGo
"A lot of other people and some family members were very mad at God. And they asked; Why? And they were very mad at God and wanted the person killed......I didn’t feel that way."
Matt - Dreamed of suicide starting at 14 - ComeOnLetsGo
"And God clearly said; “You are going to die this year.” I remember it scared me."
Bill - My corporate and political friends considered me nuts - ComeOnLetsGo
"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."
Mary Jenna - Spent years pondering my sexual identity - ComeOnLetsGo
"I started to make emotional ties with a lot of these girls that were just unhealthy."
Mary Jenna - What you say affects your sexual identity - ComeOnLetsGo
That’s the key thing here and when someone says they’re gay or homosexual, that is now saying; “That is my identity.”
Ned - Devastated by my little league football coach - ComeOnLetsGo
Sal got to me and he looked dead at me and said; “That kid’s a cry baby. He quit last year, I don’t want him.”
Ned - Traveled 360 miles a week for two years to fix my gambling addiction - ComeOnLetsGo
"I did everything imaginable you can do and probably by the grace of God. A lot of people would have been in prison for some of the stuff I did."
Rebecca - Lonely, introverted, no friends - ComeOnLetsGo
I remember during middle school and high school I think I had basically nobody to talk to outside of my family about like; "This is what I am struggling with the Lord." Like; “Why isn’t He talking to me? Why can’t I hear His voice?"
Anna - Bullied, beaten, and suicidal, but God intervened - ComeOnLetsGo
"I started cutting and looking for relationships at a very, very young age. I was cyber bullied to the point where I tried to commit suicide. All the while I was going to church and coming to our youth group and I was putting on just a face."