How a Dysfunctional Street Kid Became a Radical Disciple of Jesus (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Growing up, Greg’s life revolved around his violent, alcoholic mother and equally dysfunctional extended family, and he felt shame about who he was beginning at a young age. Eventually, the Lord intervened in his life. He went on to found Dare 2 Share, a ministry that helps the Church activate Christian teens to share the gospel within their sphere of influence. (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | The trail was the biggest, I think, feeling at that moment. |
| 0:05.0 | And just, you know, this belief that that could be going on in my home and in my marriage. |
| 0:13.0 | When Jenny discovered her husband's emotional affair, she was devastated. |
| 0:18.0 | Thankfully, she found resources at our website to heal her marriage. |
| 0:23.0 | I think focus on the family has been almost like a conduit to kind of pull together. |
| 0:29.0 | Two lives that's been broken. |
| 0:32.0 | It pulls them together through brokenness, through hurt and heartache. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Jim Daley. |
| 0:38.0 | Working together, we can rescue more hurting marriages like Jenny's and Give Families Hope. |
| 0:44.0 | Please join our marriage restoration team by calling 800, the letter A in the word family. |
| 0:49.0 | Or donate at focusonthefamily.com slash hope. |
| 0:53.0 | And your gift will be doubled. |
| 1:00.0 | Today on focusonthefamily with your host, Jim Daley, |
| 1:03.0 | we're going to hear the remarkable story of one man's violent, dysfunctional family. |
| 1:08.0 | And how God redeemed his traumatic past in some pretty unexpected ways. |
| 1:13.0 | Here's how Greg Steer describes his early childhood. |
| 1:16.0 | I come from a family filled with bodybuilding to back at you and beer drink and thugs. |
| 1:20.0 | And that's just the women. |
| 1:23.0 | It was a really a rough family growing up. |
| 1:26.0 | Three of my uncles were title winning bodybuilders. |
| 1:29.0 | My fourth uncle could bench press 500 pounds. |
| 1:31.0 | And my fifth uncle was a Golden Gloves boxer. |
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