How a Dysfunctional Street Kid Became a Radical Disciple of Jesus (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 29 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 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | In those early years, when I came to know the Lord, he and his family were so |
| 0:07.3 | against it that they actually advised him to divorce me. |
| 0:12.5 | Joyce spent many lonely years trying to trust God and love her husband well. |
| 0:17.2 | Thankfully, she found the support and encouragement she needed. |
| 0:21.0 | I think that God just really used to focus on the family and your guys' ministry to |
| 0:26.0 | grow me and prepare me and guide my heart to live out in front of my husband what it means to follow Christ. |
| 0:35.8 | In the best news of all is that Joyce Husband also became a follower of Jesus. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Jim Daley. When we work together, we can strengthen more marriages like Joyce and give |
| 0:46.2 | families hope. Please call 800 the letter A in the word family or donate at focusonthefamily.com |
| 0:53.0 | slash hope and your gift will be doubled. |
| 1:02.6 | Today on focusonthefamily we'll be returning to a remarkable conversation we had with Greg |
| 1:08.2 | Steer who was describing some of the unbelievable dysfunction and violence he witnessed as a young |
| 1:14.9 | boy in his family. Like the time when one of his step-dad's who had abandoned Greg and his |
| 1:20.5 | mother came back for a visit. It didn't go well. Greg's mom met that man with a baseball bat. |
| 1:27.0 | She beat him so bloody. I remember as a kid I joke about it now but it actually traumatized me |
| 1:32.6 | as a kid because she absolutely just beat him bloody. Finally ended up back in the car drove off |
| 1:39.3 | and I remember thinking three things as she walked back up. Number one, I will never disobey my |
| 1:44.2 | mommy again, right? Clear message there. Clear message. Number two, how did the cigarette |
| 1:49.6 | stand around the whole time? I mean it never left her mouth. Wow. And number three, why is my mom so |
| 1:56.5 | angry? Well your host today on focusonthefamily is Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller and thanks for joining us. |
| 2:03.8 | John we routinely hear from people who are hurting and damaged by unresolved conflict, |
| 2:10.1 | baggage from their past and frankly the consequences of sin and we live in a broken world |
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