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."
Inky Johnson - Lost my right arm just before the NFL draft - ComeOnLetsGo
They said; “Son you can never play the game of football again.”
Mike L - Low self esteem, depressed, even by middle school - ComeOnLetsGo
"Growing up I didn't have a very personal view of God."