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What a great night it's been so far, and we still have a lot more to come, but I want to talk to you

about your life and the direction your life is taking. The title of my message is,

what's it going to take? Now, you might think that I was raised in a Christian home. Well,

the very opposite was the case. I was raised in a home where

there was no mention of Jesus, there was no church, there were no Bibles. My mother was living

her La Vita Loca life, going from husband to husband, from marriage to marriage. She was married and divorced seven times and had a lot of boyfriends in between.

She was also a raging alcoholic.

So I spent part of my childhood living with my grandparents when I was a little boy.

And because of this I felt, well, alone. I felt abandoned.

And I felt like, what is my life even about? I don't think anyone really wants me.

And at night, I would pull the covers over my head after my grandparents had gone to bed,

and I would talk to an imaginary character

I came up with and I called him Mr. Nobody. The sad thing is I was 30 years old when I did this.

No, not really, but I, Mr. Nobody. And I would talk to this person that wasn't really there and I'd kind

of pour my little

heart out to him. And then my life took its own course in the wrong direction. I got into

party and I got into drinking and drugs and so forth. But at the age of 17, I heard about

Jesus Christ and suddenly it dawned to me, Mr. Nobody had a name. And his name

was Jesus, you see? That's who I really was searching for. So coming back to my grandparents

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