Christians like try to make me like them. I said no. You see the thing about being recovered

out of it, I think outside the box. I was molded by the life I've lived. Let me think differently.

So I felt God saying, make a coffin John and live in it. Bury yourself underground, six foot,

and live in the coffin for three days. So I made a coffin, buried a six foot underground.

Amazingly, I reached 28 million people from the coffin.

It was interactive, so I had FaceTime.

We had hundreds of people, we had up to 20 calls a minute coming in.

We had 15 live suicides falling in, and I led every single one of them to Christ.

Welcome everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. Great to be back for another fantastic

week. Listen, we, I think we've all had enough of the relentless bombardment of the 24-7

media that makes us more cynical and anxious and depressed and what we need is dollops of good

news and inspiring stories and stories of hope. And I got no doubt you're going to be inspired

this week because we got with us the wonderful John Edwards. Welcome, John. Thank you, Simon. It's

great to be here. Oh, it's so good to have you. So I only met John a few weeks, no, a few months ago now at Jay John's evangelist conference, but I heard some of his story and it is absolutely beautiful and wild. John, I mean, I don't want to tell it for you, but just by means of introduction, a ministry you set up is walking free that you run that alongside your wife, Trisha.

That's right.

I suppose what I love is that, you know, I've done a lot of ministry with people on the streets.

And you can look through the world's eyes at people on the streets and think they are, they're a lot.

Well, they probably are lost at that time.

But there's no hope for them.

And yet you are one of those people that through the world's eyes

would have just looked absolutely gone. And I know a lot of your friends from yesterday

have died, but you have, by God's grace, turned your life around. He's turned your life around,

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