I had a special hate for Christianity.
I thought they were bigots morons.
The worst of the worst hypocrites.
I grew up as a Jew.
I didn't like religion.
I hated Hebrew school more than
anything that I think I'd
ever done in my childhood.
The teacher would ask me to write in
Hebrew. I'd write in French.
I was the only one my class to not get
Bar Mitzvah'd.
The number one thing that I wanted to
become was a star a celebrity
was infatuated with the arts.
I was infatuated with theater.
I was infatuated film and music and
TV and entertainment
as I started performing in front of
people. I realized that
I craved the attention of people I
would love people to tell me oh how
believable you were on stage and how
amazing you are.
And then people would promise me things
like Oh you're gonna be a star.
Eventually I got a Broadway
credit I got my name in lights
on a Broadway marquee.
People loved me and they wanted things
for me and I fed off that I thought
I was becoming a type of rock star.
As I was searching
for certain things because all
the while in me as I was bolstering
up my ego I was secretly
really depressed.
I wasn't happy I wasn't
fulfilled. I thought becoming a
celebrity would fulfill me inside.
What I wasn't expecting when I entered
into the entertainment industry was an
introduction to the spiritual.
As I got more into entertainment
I entered into
a occultic practices but there is new
age Buddhism Hinduism.
Gnosticism, Free Masonry, beings of
light (many other new age studies)
vibrationalism, lowering your vibration
raising up your vibration keeping your
vibration stable telling me that I was
god, that you were god, that
the tree is god that the chair is god
that everything is god that we're all
one. As I practice these New Age
practices I got deeper and
question life more in question in
question question.
I had a sense that the world was
in a lot of trouble.
I had a new age friend in Oklahoma
who introduced me to a guy in Costa
Rica said oh this guy has really great
teachings.
And he was a Christian.
As soon as I found out that this guy
was a Christian I want to have nothing
to do with him.
I hung up the phone.
Think a few days later I was feeling
extremely tormented in my bed.
I was very confused.
I wanted peace
and I don't even know if I meant to say
it but I just said Jesus help me.
And.
I fell asleep
peacefully and I had a piece that I
never had. It was like This is very
strange. So I went back I called up
Richard and Costa Rica.
And he said that's the Holy Spirit.
He introduced me to the Scriptures.
Introduced me the Bible told me the
gospel.
I stopped doing any occult
practices threw out
most of my books anything that had
to do with the occult.
My life has completely changed.
My family brought me to see
a therapist because they thought I'd
gone mentally insane.
All the other stuff that I was into new
age whatever that was fine.
But as soon as I became a Christian
they thought I went nuts.
I told people I was a Christian.
And thousands of people I knew who.
Loved me or who were my friend or
who wanted something from me.
They left nothing else I
had ever done in my life before
repelled people except me coming to
Jesus.
I got called a homophobe I got called
Biggot I got called stupid
by people that I revered
by even celebrities and idols
that I,
Used to want to be like.
Everything that I loved in the world.
Broadway movies TV music
I wanted fame I wanted power.
I was amazed that God was calling
me to give all that up for Him.
To not love anything in the world.
People may think that because
I've given up my career that
I've lost but I've gained everything
in Jesus.
I can't take a career with me.
I can't take friends with me.
I can't even take my own body with me.
So the only thing I have when I
pass on from this earth is Jesus
Christ.
And that's exactly where
my real life begins.