Ruslan is one of the most recognizable Christian influencers today.

He's a popular YouTuber, rapper, and author of the new book, Godly Ambition.

You gave me the opportunity to endorse this.

I think it's fantastic.

We're going to look at your life, your assessment of the church today,

and a warning you have for young Christians.

This is long overdue,

but thanks for coming on, man. Man, thanks for having me. Yeah, I had you on about a year ago.

Yeah, a couple times. A couple times even on. Well, I want to start with your story. I know you were not born in the States. You're not a Christian growing up. Tell us about your family growing up.

Yes, I'm ethnically Armenian, but raised in a country called Azerbaijan Baku,

which is just to the east of Armenia.

And Armenia and the Turks have a long, ongoing thing from the Armenian genocide.

And so Turkey, Azerbaijan often referred to as two nations, two people, one state.

Okay.

And there's been a lot of deep ethnic cleansing in that region of Armenians.

And so long story short, in the 80s, we had something called the pogroms of Baku, which was over, I think I want to say the year, 1980 to 1990, about half a million Armenians were ethnically cleansed from Azerbaijan.

And me and my family came as refugees because of that.

Massive violence in the streets, hundreds of folks killed.

And it was very, you know, crazy for my family.

My dad had to leave early, me and my mom stayed behind

because we, my mom's adopted by an Armenian family,

but she's ethnically Russian or Ukrainian.

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