When they went their way with the knives to go stab my homeboy, I jumped in the way of the knife.

God's story? Your life. Unfolding short stories.

Justin Glover grew up in drug houses and gangs. He spent years in prison. He lived in a world where violence

was normal. And yet his is a story of grace. It's a story where God never stopped reaching

for him. Before he ever shared this story live in Kansas City at a storytelling event, I spent

over an hour with Justin on the phone. We were talking

about sharing his story and what that could mean. And all he wanted to do is talk about Jesus and how

God would use this time to change the lives of other people. So I was born to an old man in Denver,

Colorado. My daddy was 56 when he had me.

Born in 1933, he ran half of Denver, so, I mean, drugs everywhere.

I was raised with a lot of women, so I got a lot of moms.

And that was kind of my lifestyle growing up.

It wasn't really poverty.

It was more like a ghetto silver spoon.

My dad did the best he could for me. He taught me a lot of mentally principles too, you know.

So I ended up starting getting in a lot of trouble. Got into gangs because I was looking for love,

because I was kind of shunned off from my family. I was the crack baby. I was the illegitimate child

born outside of the family, like David, a little bit.

So I always kind of thought less of myself growing up.

You know, I never thought the best of myself, you know.

So I got into gangs looking for love and stuff like that in the streets.

And at this time, we started a block and we were real violent you know and I had learned

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