So I was illegitimate and I have to tell you something, when you find out your illegitimate

that you weren't planned, that's kind of disconcerting.

Because you asked yourself the question, was I even meant to be, was I a mistake?

Is my life an accident or does God have a plan for me despite my rather inauspicious beginnings?

Well that's an interesting perspective from our guest today on Focus on the Family Greg

Laurie and we'll hear what answers he found to those questions today.

Thanks for joining us, your host is Focus President, Jim Daley and I'm John Fuller.

You know John, I could relate to those questions Greg was asking because my birth wasn't

planned either.

I was what they called the oops baby, my closest sibling is my sister Dee and she's six

years older than me and they're all about a year, year and a half apart.

So I understand what it's like to wonder, am I a mistake does God have a plan for me?

And as we heard yesterday, Greg had a tumultuous childhood because of his mother's promiscuous

lifestyle and by the time he got into high school, he was doing drugs on a regular basis.

But a chance meeting with a when some Christian girl led Greg into a relationship with Jesus

Christ and he was able to quit drugs cold turkey.

And as we pick up the story today, Greg's figuring out what it means to be a Christian in his

daily walk as a high school student in Southern California.

And this was in the late 60s, 1960s in Orange County, California.

Here now Greg Laurie speaking at his church, Harvest Christian Fellowship on today's Focus

on the Family.

So now it's back at school, it's Monday and I think all right, all right, I'm going to go

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