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When did you start preaching? Well, I started preaching, I'd say 22.

And I was a young man, just passionate about the things of God.

And I started street preaching.

So I went through the conversion process.

I was in the Baptist movement.

I was born Baptist. I was going to die a Baptist, but I wanted more.

And one evening, when I was going through the, we call it formalities of religion, I begin to call out on the name of the Lord, that whosoever calls on the name

of the Lord shall be saved.

And I was sick and tired of the fake, the fraud, and the phony, because I was definitely

a phony, you know.

What makes you say that?

Well, because I was going to church on Sunday, but doing cocaine Saturday night.

Oh, wow. I was a junior deacon on the deacon board and all these other different things.

They had great expectations.

My father was a Baptist pastor.

So I would go to the conventions, looking for girls and all this, you know,

looking for love in all the wrong places.

Yeah.

And what happened was, you know, I got tired of being, I might as well use

the word just religious, you know, and having that form of godliness, but didn't really have no

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