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I got saved in prison, serving a nine-year prison sentence.

Jesus Christ came in my cell.

I mean, he told me to follow follow him and I was instantly born again. Everything radically changed for me. I didn't go home immediately after that.

So it wasn't a jailhouse, a religious experience. It was an authentic one. And I began to live for the

Lord behind bars. I got called

to the pastorate in prison. I got called to the Ministry of Deliverance in prison. But when I came

out of prison, I joined the denomination and then they got that out of me, but that's a whole

other story there. And I went many years preaching against deliverance.

My mind, my theological framework could not embrace that a, how can a spirit-filled Christian have a

demon, like living on the inside? And I had all of these idioms and these proverbial statements

that denominationalism says, you know, like,

how can the Holy Spirit live in the same house with the demon, you know, and well, then I begin to,

you know, living in New York, that, that made total sense to me because you could live in a house

with roaches. How can I, and I, how many of you know, you clean your house and then

there's still something critter somewhere, you know?

So my theology was wrestling with my cultural upbringing of where I was at.

And we had one of the fastest growing churches in the Bronx at that time, at least from my denomination.

Now this was 18 years ago.

I was 24 years old.

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