Redemption Story: Johnny Chang’s Path from Crime to Ministry

Wealthy Way

Ryan Pineda

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Meet Johnny Chang. In this podcast, Johnny shares his remarkable journey from his beginnings in gang culture to finding redemption through faith. Having spent years behind bars, Johnny's story of transformation after embracing Christianity is nothing short of extraordinary.

We then dive into his past, recounting his tumultuous upbringing, to his time spent behind bars. Discover how Johnny's newfound faith not only turned his life around but also empowered him to reach out to others in similar situations.

From his early days in the streets to his current mission of spreading the gospel through social media and teaching the Bible to fellow prisoners, Johnny's story serves as a story of hope and resilience.
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0:00.0	My brother and I both of us were in prison and my mom though she was more peaceful than all of us
0:05.0	She would say really crazy stuff like Johnny one day you're gonna be a gospel preacher
0:09.2	My mom I'm carrying a gun and I'm selling bricks I have a back of my car like what are you saying right now you know
0:14.9	Yeah people are so scared to share the gospel because they're like well, you know I don't know everything yeah
0:21.6	I'm like dude just live it out you don't have to know everything.
0:25.2	He says so if God says he doesn't remember it means it's wiped from his memory and he doesn't remember your sins.
0:31.1	And there's an issue though he said Johnny you remember your sins right and
0:35.0	likewise God has already given the judgment statement which is Jesus Christ
0:39.3	dying for your sins and making you righteous and that really changed my life.
0:45.0	What's up, Well, Bidders. Today I got a guy. I've been seeing on social media a lot, especially in the Christian space.
0:50.0	His testimony is absolutely crazy going from gang banging and getting locked up when he was 12 years old to coming out the other side.
0:58.0	Man, absolutely crazy. I got Johnny Chang, what's up man?
1:02.0	Appreciate you, real. Yeah, I'm glad we got connected. It's funny because... I got you should try and get this guy Johnny Chang on. He's really cool. I like watching his,
1:14.3	I guess you do Bible studies on Instagram or like morning prayers or something.
1:18.8	Yeah, that's awesome. Both, yeah. Oh, you do both. Well, there you go. He he's like did I like watching them yeah that's great bro yeah I mean
1:34.6	You know I blew up recently from Instagram so I think that's like my main like social media page. I'm going on Tik-talk now but yeah Instagram's like the spot if you guys want to hear you know daily
1:38.7	devotional and Bible studies we call them bar for bars. Yeah I literally go through a whole chapter and I'll explain it.
1:44.3	Wow. So I also saw you with my friend Michael Francise and he had you on his channel.
1:49.9	Another guy obviously you guys have a very similar background. So that was cool to see but um I mean do like let's just start I mean how the heck did you end up
2:00.1	locked up at 12? So I was in a gang. I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley.
2:06.0	I grew up in Section 8 Project Housing.
2:08.0	And I'm from a Chinese gang called the watching.
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