Welcome to Culture and Christianity. I'm delighted to get to introduce you to a and Christianity.

I'm delighted to get to introduce you to a new friend, Gabe Perrault.

He's the author of a book that is releasing this week, 18 Days in Heaven.

This is a fascinating story.

Full disclosure, I haven't finished the book, but I'm going to.

Because once you started, it's hard to stop.

So we just finished Easter weekend. So my time was a little limited, but I got into it. And I thought, I don't only want to meet this man. I want to get to the rest of your story.

So you have this phenomenal life-changing event. You have a background in Christianity, but had an

accident. Maybe we start there. Tell us how you got to the point before you had a miracle.

Yeah, for sure. So before October 25th, 2021, which is when the accident happened, I certainly

love the Lord. I was born again. I loved speaking up and I

didn't back down. I grew up in a very liberal town and of course, you know, going to all the liberal

public schools, I quickly understood how toxic the culture of the schools was, especially the public

school system, but that's another conversation. And so I started to get a backbone, but. Because you were in social media talking about, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You were using your voice for the kingdom of God. Right, exactly. And I knew a lot about faith, right? You know a lot about the Bible. You learn all these things about Christ. You speak up for him and it's great. There's a big difference between knowing about him though and where I was headed for.

This is so important. I don't want to just, I'm sorry. I'll interrupt a little bit. So you could have passed a Jesus test or gotten past your New Testament summary quiz if I'm hearing you or if I understood what I was reading. Correct. So it wasn't that you didn't know about it or you hadn't been engaged in the culture. Yeah. So no, I certainly knew about it and I would have passed the test. But I always just tell people there's a big difference between knowing about versus knowing. And that's what I was soon to discover. And it was just an ordinary day. It was about 70 degrees outside and my life changed.

So tell us about, you had an accident?

Yeah.

You had a devastating accident.

Very.

So I had this electric skateboard and it would go anywhere.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, it was a thing.

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