"Why Did You Become a Christian?" Jordan Peterson asks Eric Metaxas

[@heidicook2739]

I’m a Christian because I desperately need a Savior.

[@sheilamullins4417]

Amen and Amen

[@clarkemcclymont2879]

That is the absolute correct statement.

[@jk.9300]

No ya don’t. But keep the chains on if u want

[@heidicook2739]

@@jk.9300 Friend, my life is full and genuinely free. And full of joy.

[@liannemarie2504]

​@jk.9300 the chains are I your head, sir

[@DrinkColdWater]

As someone studying medicine, feeling alone as a Christian in the university, this video really inspired me. Thank you, and God bless you! :)

[@bettymobley763]

Amen!

[@margaretcantlon9960]

Bless you on your Journey. Walking with Christ you will become a noble healer.✝️💜

[@bryant475]

Were you able to see my msg?

[@ohhello3234]

There will be Christians at your place, you just haven’t met them. You need to find a close circle of Christians. Form a weekly prayer, Bible reading etc circle.

[@Truthmatters6385]

God will honor your faith and use you. I'm sure many of the early disciples felt alone. You hold fast to who you are and keep on doing what your are doing. You are exactly where God planted you to sow seeds. 🙏🏻

[@williambranch4283]

Vivid dreams are amazing. Mine was simpler. I had recently married a Christian woman and started practicing Christianity with her. Jesus came to me in a dream, we were alone, and Jesus said "I can save even you".

[@johannaquinones7473]

❤wow how glorious to have that as a testimony

[@williambranch4283]

@@johannaquinones7473 But the motion of my living fingers typing this is sufficient. That is why it was mocking for the Pharisees to demand a SPECIAL miracle.

[@ReLair88]

So did Jesus save you? Were you born again and surrendered your life to him?

[@williambranch4283]

@@ReLair88 Yes, saved and being saved.

[@ashleycnossen3157]

"I've accepted Jesus." The most beautiful words anyone can utter.

[@cristinaxo]

AMEN!! 👍🙏❤️🤗

[@laughinghawk8522]

Amen.

[@sarahlaslett3279]

Especially when they are uttered with a Holy Spirit echo.

[@larryyoungjr]

“Jesus accepted me….”

[@ashleycnossen3157]

@@larryyoungjr Jesus asks for us to receive Him. Both kinds of language are used in the Bible. We must receive Him and He must receive us. You're splitting hairs over nothing.

[@christopherwheeler2749]

Eric Metaxas is so articulate that I believe that he was chosen to give his testimony to JP. Lord please call JP.

[@jodyel]

I believe JP might have come around...or is starting to. I've heard that. I guess we'll have to wait till he makes his own announcement though.

[@victoriashipman3525]

Best part of the Whole story- "I met someone who began to share his faith with me". 😭😭😭😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Testimony!

[@betterwithrum]

Amen! Romans 1:16 let’s go!!!

[@zzshane1]

Father give us boldness! Amen! Men being born again is truly miraculous!

[@flashwashington2735]

Yes. This is the way. The ministry of reconciling God to man was being operated by someone who had the word of reconciliation and loving spoke by faith. Praise God.

[@GeauxCarnivore]

It started for me when my neighbor invited me to a Bible Study.

[@flashwashington2735]

@@GeauxCarnivore As God intended, The church in the home of believers, depicted in Acts. Taking the world, the WORD over. 😉🙏

[@ClayB05]

Year and a half ago, i had a dream that told me to read the book of Mark. I woke up and looked at my phone. I had a text from my mom. In the text she wrote a quote from the book of Mark. I’d never read the Bible in my life. Read the New Testament and a good bit of the Old. she’s always been praying for me. Let’s just say the last year and a half have been a wild ride.

[@ReLair88]

Amen....God does things like that.

[@APKyle]

Incredible, Clay. I am praying for you now. Matthew 7:7-8

[@anjagray4867]

Keep reading only he can safe

[@ErnestSamuels-u4q]

What was the quote?

[@jodyel]

It is a wild ride coming to know Christ and having your world turned upside down. But so worth it. God bless.

[@mydearestpotato]

I love how the Lord reaches people where they are. Thank you for sharing this

[@charlescharliejpeg]

I called on Jesus and he saved me! From that day on, I put my faith in him ❤

[@room2growrose623]

There is NOTHING like personal testimony ❤️🙏🏽

[@cristinaxo]

Amen!! ❤🙏

[@flashwashington2735]

The WORD of God. The love of God. That's two that surpass testimony. Everybody has a story to tell of passing from the dark to the light. I never tire if hearing them. I maybe wrong, but it's eternal story hour after the gathering. We'll joy and rejoice over and over in our stories. God bless.

[@room2growrose623]

@@flashwashington2735 over and over again Jesus used story to bring people into understanding. That’s why someone who has been transformed by Jesus and the Holy Spirit, but is ignorant of scripture, can still save people. Did the woman at the well use scripture to get people to come out and meet Jesus? No. She shared her testimony and everyone came to see what she was talking about. Of course I agree, knowledge of the Word is critical, but testimony is personal and people resonate with that.

[@flashwashington2735]

@@room2growrose623 What about those it doesn't resonate with. And if you want to grow in Christ you'll need more than testimony. I never spoke against testimony. But posting it on you tube about Jordan Peterson brings people to Christ. How? I like Peterson's testimony, but with the access he has to testimonies and scripture he's still unsaved. The word is first and more foundational. That's what I said. That is what I mean. That is my testimony. God bless.

[@flashwashington2735]

@@room2growrose623John 4:40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his own word; 42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world. They themselves state it was not her testimony. Her excitement and enthusiasm woke them up. This woman already knew alot of scripture before Christ came to her. You realize testimony may be outside of scripture, is phenomena. May be Satan's testimony appearing real. May even corrupt people devoid of correct teaching. How many thousands of times do people share their witnessed testimony? How few are posted in the bible given to us as adequate to know all matters of life and godliness? Why are the few included? What was God saying? Take the testimonies and teachings of snake handling. God's word is truth and life and love. Show me the exultation of testimony in the bible, chapter and verse please. I will show you chapter and verse what Luther stated. Sola scriptura. You can't save anyone without the word. Testimony in KZbin comments refers men to whom? It doesn't tell anyone where to go to get the information.

[@judahbrutus]

I had a dream like this. I was agnostic and I got saved in a dream. When I woke up I knew the bible was true and god was real even before knowing what it says, it was unexplainable. I often wonder why did this happen to me or to someone like Eric, I'm not really sure. I was not a good person at all but I wanted god to be real and I had a humble heart towards god even though I wasn't sure he existed. I used to pray and without feeling anything, just hoping god existed and would hear me. Out of nowhere he responded with this vivid dream that changed my life.

[@bowittman]

Amazing. I love hearing people tell how God showed Himself to them.

[@antoin8207]

Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.. If you seek God earnestly you will find Him or actually He would find you!

[@l.vaughan182]

It happened because the Lord created you and he says in his scriptures he will not lose not one of his. Before he allow the enemy to have your soul he will fight for you praise God and that's what he did Hallelujah. John 10:10 I came to give you life and life more abundantly Jeremiah 29:11 for I know the plans that I have for you plans to prosper you and not to harm you

[@ElaineEC]

Although I was raised Catholic, I stopped going to Mass at 13. Then spent most of my life (I’m 71) denying the existence of God. I bought into the 60’s culture dogma that feeling good was all that mattered. And I learned the hard way, that that is a sure path to destruction. After severe drug addiction, followed by a suicide attempt, I continued to believe I could do it on my own - essentially being my own god. It was a disaster!! My life went even more to hell and I struggled against depression for years. Finally just a few months ago, I was given the Hallow app - just to do the daily quiz with my friend. After a while I started to look around the Hallow app, not seriously, but I let down my guard just a tiny bit - and suddenly the grace of God hit me like a tsunami. I was horrified by my extremely sinful past and knew my sins helped put Jesus on that cross. I went to confession the next day (a very long confession with a wonderfully understanding and kind priest). I haven’t looked back since. I’ve never been happier and more at peace.

[@buzzingedge5362]

Have you engaged with any protestant apologetics/critiques of roman catholicism? Just curious because a lot of people will return to what they were raised with without fully considering the position of that church or the perspectives of other Christian traditions :)

[@crushedrighthand3090]

@@buzzingedge5362 My wife was raised catholic like @ElaineEC, she also rebelled against it as her mother never let her miss a mass. When I met her, and eventually shared the true gospel, she couldn't believe the difference between what she was taught and what the Word of God actually says when not obscured by the Latin language or cancelled for church 'tradition'. Prayers for Elaine that God would show her His true Word.

[@franbatista9062]

The 60s culture was basically brought from Frankfurt School's Marxist ideology application to Western culture to distance people from God and follow pleasure, hedonism behaviors. Glad you found God, very soon Jesus Christ second coming is arriving.

[@MagdalenaIsaiah431]

I spent 14 years as a devout Bible reading Evangelical Protestant but the last 3 years as a Convert to Catholicism have been the happiest and most fulfilling of my Christian life! I understand now why the devil attacks Catholicism so viciously! He knows where the *True* POWER is! Scott Hahn's conversion story of his stunning discovery of the Truth of Catholicism whole Studying COVENANT theology is what first opened my eyes then there was no going back! I pray for the unity of all Christians everywhere but I would never even consider being anything but Catholic now. Also love the Greek Orthodox liturgy. GOD being worshipped like a KING as demonstrated in Revelation and Isaiah. JESUS front and center in The Eucharist. I have never loved Church like I do as a Catholic. It's like a true homecoming and many if my fellow converts and even Jewish converts describe the same sense of fullness in homecoming even if they first passed through the Protestant denominations before finally arriving to the Church of The full Communion of the Saints🙏🙏🏽🙏🏼🙏🏻🙏🏿✝️💖

[@22grena]

@@buzzingedge5362 Catholicism is the true faith

[@samuelcallai4209]

Wow, beautiful. So many people find Jesus through dreams, amazing.

[@JR6191947]

This is the fulfillment of biblical prophesy He is calling loudly

[@Jerry.anthony.c]

0:40 - Yale being hostile to Faith 1:00 - Being lost 4:50 - Don't get Jungian on me 😂 5:30 - Searching for meaning of life 9:00 - Wonderful dream. The Golden Fish 10:56 - It means "I've accepted Jesus" 🥰🥰🥰❤️

[@soohoonlee739]

Beautiful summary!

[@kellymartin5045]

I am so sad because my 24 year old doesn’t know Jesus. Sometimes I feel like there is no chance that he will ever accept Jesus into his heart. This has reminded me to never stop praying and that God is working behind the scenes to bring all of his sheep back into His flock.

[@DH-vy8hw]

So glad, my parents didn't stop praying for me!!! Be encouraged!

[@ThisAintIt435]

I am 24, and through opening my mind and being shown some of these videos, reasoning for logical and historical evidence, it helped put me on the path. I also started reading the bible a little bit ago, even before becoming this religious, just as a fascinating historical book with much wisdom.

[@thomaslovell7861]

Never put limits on our God. Keep praying. If you believe in your heart that what you ask will be done, it will. I pray for your son!

[@julieelizabeth4856]

Pray for someone to cross his path who will be a good influence on him. Sometimes it takes someone other than a parent. Even St. Monica needed help with her son St. Augustine. Help was found with St. Ambrose who got through to the rebellious young Augustine.

[@ThisAintIt435]

@@julieelizabeth4856 for me it was my many Muslim friends that made me more religious and spiritual. They didn’t convert me, but they made me appreciate my religion more and I have become a better Christian.

[@johnbrown4568]

Thank you Eric for sharing your story of coming to Jesus Christ. Gods's continued blessings brother.

[@marye.2018]

Praise God for His infinite mercy!

[@ofeliaclaudio6379]

I read your autobiography, Fish Out Of Water. You mentioned this dream that brought about your conversion. It’s so much clearer to me now after you explained it, Eric. I’m so glad Jordan asked you to describe the dream in detail. And as always, Eric, gifted communicator that you are, you described the experience so well. Praise God! God never ceases to amaze me! His ways are indeed inscrutable! O the depths of His wisdom. Your testimony, Eric, encourages me as I pray for my family, friends and all who are lost, including Ben Affleck who, I heard, battles with the demons of alcoholism, just as his father n other family members did. What a broken world we have! No wonder God in His love for man, made the ultimate sacrifice of sending His Son Jesus to rescue us! I love this video! Thank you, Eric and Jordan!

[@twnb7733]

The Sodomy is the last sign before the complete destruction of a civilization. Who can come after the Christ, but the Antichrist? It’s Islam + Communism. The mayor of New York just announced the permission of the Islamic Antichrist mosques to call for prayers!!!! Many Americans have dreamed of nuclear bombings….. Prepare yourself! The 3rd black horse is released: the hyperinflation = the famine.

[@hlatse98]

Wow!!! 🥹❤️🤯 What an incredible dream!!! I just love how personal Jesus is - that He would pursue our hearts in a language that we can understand.

[@davidochiengbuoga7165]

I became a Christian because God wanted me to be a Christian. "I was found by those who did not seek me:I revealed myself to those who did not ask me"(Romans 10:20)

[@pinkroses135]

Amen

[@davidochiengbuoga7165]

@@pinkroses135 Amen

[@richsbrown3]

Amen! Salvation is of the LORD.

[@davidochiengbuoga7165]

@@richsbrown3 Indeed 🙏♥️🇰🇪

[@rogindaUP]

Amen & AMEN! We love Him because He first loved us!

[@thekam3588]

What a beautiful testimony.

[@Voteford]

I absolutely love that testimony. The Lord has audibly spoken to me several times inside my head telling me things that convinced me, without a doubt, that He is real and working in my life.

[@theHentySkeptic]

He took the roof off my house one night as I lay on my back in my bedroom, and began mocking my arrogance. He showed me (an engineer) all the wonderful things He had made - a vision of all the women/girls I had loved. I didn't sleep for two days after that! It was very very powerful imagery. You think you're smart - look what I made? I wasn't expecting that but I was wondering how you open your heart to God. Instantly, like a wind gust blasts a door open, the roof was gone and the girls were there (bust like holograms). As Eric said, game over!

[@rebeccakamara5853]

I love it when God humbles us 🥹🥹🥹🥹 No, No it’s not fun in the moment, but you look back and say to yourself “ I am glad He did that”

[@MYfriendsknow]

SO WONDERFUL ! ! ! Thank you & Peace 🕊

[@GeauxCarnivore]

That conversion is beautiful. Simply beautiful. Thanks be to God.

[@cathy4246]

You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Thank you for this beautiful testimony.

[@thefish103]

“Don’t get Jungian on me”

[@elizabethroberts9654]

“You do that in your own time”

[@robertbordevik5072]

"Laughs, trying to shrug it off, but it stung a little"

[@cbel888]

Said the fish 🐟 😅😂😢❤

[@nwilliams3848]

That is the best thing I’ve ever heard from a interviewee on his podcast hahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@blackswan7568]

So glad someone finally called Jordan out on that😆

[@M_Soaring]

Eric Metaxas is a class act.❤❤

[@praisemoves2438]

One day, I was 'past' the 'end of my rope'. I was walking down my hallway when God spoke to me. He said, 'Yes, (my name) you belong to Me.' When I got to my kitchen, He struck me down with a blinding white light, brighter than lightening. I could not get up. I immediately realized that this was NOT my New-age hindu gods that were messing w me. I acknowledged that this was from the Only God. Next came a deluge of tears. Tears of extreme remorse & repentance (for my unbelief) and tears of JOY that my Savior had forgiven me.

[@johnmiesel9796]

Wow! What a beautiful encounter!

[@yehoshua9588]

Thank you Eric. I love the beautifully personal way God reached you! This resonates with me and I pray that it resonates with Dr. Peterson as well.

[@wheelsofafrica]

What a testimony! Thank you, Eric! Now, Jordan, stop paddling around the periphery or Christianity, and plunge into the pool. You know it's true.

[@pristine9384]

Maybe he isn't ready to announce his faith publicly

[@IamHzwyfee]

@@pristine9384 *Isn’t that the same as if a man and woman are dating and one posts unashamedly about the other in their social media while the other says: “I don’t want other people in our business.” Or, If you’re together but you don’t know their friends or family because they didn’t tell anyone about you? That’s kinda sus and seems weird. I’ve never met a true follower of Christ who didn’t want to shout it from the rooftops. The testimonies in this comment thread are proof of that. He IS NOT a Bible believing follower of doctrine of Jesus Christ who is the savior and Lord for all that believe in His name.*

[@danielcetina5790]

😂🎉

[@GD-sz1mo]

What a powerful testimony! Thanks for sharing with such detail. We don't choose Him. He chooses us.

[@princebuster93]

@ GD, no, that’s Calvinism. We have free will, an individual has to make a free will decision to trust Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour

[@SamuelMoerbe]

Hello friend! I want to give gentle pushback, as I’m not a Calvinist, but what was being said is Bibical. Maybe meditate on this text for a bit: “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.” John 15:16-17

[@MyJMacD]

My wonderful son was also at Yale and somehow managed to survive with his faith (biblical Christianity) intact.

[@jimikrentkowski4073]

That was a great testimony, Eric!!

[@InOtherWorlds11]

Beautiful profound dream 🙏 May God give all the unbelievers dreams and visions 🙏 May the Holy Spirit touch them and open their eyes to the truth 🙏

[@catherinemelnyk]

I remember, although I can't give you a date, I was sitting in an old-fashioned Baptist church in Toronto and I saw something like a skylight in this old church, although there weren't any skylights in the church ceiling, a ray of sun coming through the front of the church. I felt Jesus pouring out His love on me. I wept during that service. That was more than 30 years ago. I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT MORNING AS LONG AS I LIVE. It was like the sky opening up and accepting this wretched sinner into his presence...it was so very long ago...

[@BrandonT0787]

That sounds like my first encounter as well. I was praying in church eyes closed and warm light started shining through my eyelids. It was not uncomfortable like the sun. I started opening my eyes and saw the face of Jesus in the front of the pews in like a substance of golden warm light. And then it faded away.

[@jasongarey8329]

Beautiful and amazing testimony. ❤

[@sabrinadaisybess]

A beautiful dream indeed!!! Bliss you!!

[@BigPhilly15]

I also had a dramatic spiritual dream that brought me back to faith. I was in my late 20s. Incredible to hear someone else come back the same way. Don’t hear it often.

[@bryanoldenburg9870]

The words, perhaps, that were tailor-made for Jordan Peterson. The perfectly teed-up question, "Why Did You Become a Christian?" (A priceless opportunity to share the Gospel). A question posed by a psychologist, waiting for answers regarding a dream. JP has been searching, and so close to salvation. I know this was another "pebble in his shoe," so to speak, on his way to following Christ. PS: While listening to your story at a restaurant, I looked up, and instantly saw an image of a large pike fish on the back of a guy's shirt. Coincidence? I think not.

[@bowittman]

My first thought as well. I so want to see that extraordinary man get saved.

[@markwadie1157]

so cool you saw the pike on the guy's shirt straight after. So God. Love Him

[@ReLair88]

No, not a coincidence. I had a dream about an earthquake on the New Madrid fault 2 years ago. This past week, I was praying about it and a friend sent me, out of the blue a couple of hours later, a video about such a quake. I wondered that day if the Lord would confirm the dream (by hearing the name Shelby because in the dream it is MEMPHIS in SHELBY County that is hit hardest). I drove to mail a letter that evening and on the way home, the host of a talk show (had the radio on for 5 minutes) mentioned the name Carroll Shelby (I didn't know who that was). The next night I was channel surfing on TV and stopped on a movie, saw a man's hand with his finger pointing to an entry on a piece of paper. The entry he pointed to was 1967 Shelby GT500. I started watching the Chiefs' game, but flipped back to that movie a couple of times. The 2nd time I did, I found out the character's nickname was MEMPHIS.

[@bryanoldenburg9870]

Wow! @@ReLair88

[@ReLair88]

@@bryanoldenburg9870 I might add that when I lived in CA 20 years ago, I had 7 earthquake dreams that came to pass. Had no earthquake dreams since I moved to KC except this one about the New Madrid fault. (Note: I am a woman who doesn't follow racing so had no idea who Carroll Shelby was until now.)

[@davidengelhardt]

So grateful for Eric and his testimony of Discovering a God who reveals himself in dreams.

[@danimal118]

Beautiful testimony...

[@lookup7055]

What Peterson doesn’t understand, is that everyone’s encounter with God is different. What seems insignificant to you, is very significant to the person who had the encounter, in other words, no one knows you better than God.

[@charlescharliejpeg]

Very true!

[@elroussa]

Oh he understands very well, he had the most beautiful experience when Grace visited him. Look for his testimony.

[@lookup7055]

@@elroussa but he never says if he’s a Christian or that he has a relationship with Christ. I know someone who asked him & he said he didn’t feel comfortable with the question.

[@cbel888]

ALLELUJAH.❤

[@MaraKatria]

Thank you for sharing your great epiphany! What an excellent interview by the way 🐠

[@shadowjuan2]

It’s always such a joy to hear the different stories of how each of us comes to God. It’s different for everybody. It wasn’t a dream for me, it was doom and suffering, one day I simply decided God was real, it had to be real. I haven’t looked back since.

[@DayspringCCBrampton]

God be praised!

[@joannaduplessis7231]

Super powerful testimony. Thank you Eric for sharing that. ❤

[@andrewkoster9339]

Wow that's very similar to what happened to me. Praise the Lord.

[@southhillfarm2795]

It means I’ve accepted Jesus. His last thought in this video was very beautiful.

[@crushedrighthand3090]

A beautiful thought indeed. I would suggest, however, that it is Jesus who accepted Eric. "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:44 KJV.

[@markwadie1157]

both true, but understand your comment .@@crushedrighthand3090

[@geo.ies93]

And powerful. Viva Cristo Rey! ❤️

[@flashwashington2735]

Welcome brother! God bless you both stout men.

[@natash.p91]

Seek and you shall find 🙏

[@soohoonlee739]

Wow! Just Wow! Thanks a lot for sharing!

[@alysonwitt9662]

Glory to God!!

[@dougcleveland4926]

Proud to be a Canadian. Thank you Jordan. Yes there is hope yet for canada

[@riverwildcat1]

Truth is beauty, and joy is our reward for cultivating it.

[@TboneWTF]

Where do you find truth in this video old timer?

[@riverwildcat1]

@@TboneWTF If you don’t have eyes to see it, there’s nothing I can do for you. How can one describe gold, rubies, and emeralds to a blind individual?

[@TboneWTF]

@@riverwildcat1 LOL. That's alright old timer. I actually knew you couldn't give specific references of truth from this video. It's a rhetoric comment, correct? I do find your use of metaphors very amusing. Good luck.

[@riverwildcat1]

@@TboneWTF LOL. Amen.

[@Iamgabylucia]

Praise the Lord! I’ve had similar messages in dreams. Thank you so much for sharing

[@joycehernandez9154]

Thank you Eric 🎉 so beautiful

[@mearly3680]

Wow! Thank you for sharing.

[@mnm2156]

Praise God! ❤ Only God could've done that. ❤

[@godwinmanuel6963]

For men and women who are dead in sin and blind to God, coming to faith in Christ is a wonderful miracle from God.

[@andreaatsevenov4444]

God knows how to speak to each one of us because He made us and Loves us... if you want to KNOW if He's real... ask Him to show you... be resolute... keep asking, keep seeking and watch what happens!!

[@judithanntoole8900]

Wow such a profoundly lucid dream...God came from his medium into my medium and died for me. Thank you for sharing this amazing moment of spiritual transformation with us.

[@franmorrison1080]

Where in scripture does it say this? Jesus refers to himself as "the son of man"

[@depabooks]

Wonderful Praise God

[@dearestsimone]

I would love to answer the question, too. I became a Christian because one night in a swimming pool locker room I cried out to what was only the Void, whatever was behind the Curtain, whatever might be in the transendent that might know me, as I did not know it. I addressed it as if it were a person, and said "Please reveal yourself to me, whatever you are, as you might be responsible for my life. Even if you are evil. Better that this rotting soul be attached, brought home to what is real, and true, than this nothing ness, this arbitrary rotting nothingness." Then I forgot that I said such a thing. A few months later, after I had left home for college, the Holy Spirit came to me. First, I could not stop smiling. There was something new in my eyes when I looked in the dorm mirror. A presence had come. I could invite him to stay or not. I said, "Okay, yes, what is there to lose?" A minute or two later, maybe ten or twenty, I would be recalled back, and 'it' was still there. I would say Yes again. (I fully felt all my freedom in this! As never before!) Then a change of scene, going to class, a few hours pass, it is still there. Somewhere in here, maybe from the beginning, I realize it was a He, a Person, and not "it". (It was the nature of this interaction that instructed me from that point on just what a Person was, in the big metaphysical sense.) I began to realize with more assurance, after a few days, that He, the new presence, was not going to leave me unless I rescinded my invitation. But I was not about to do that! It took a full two weeks to get the point where I understood that this was the Christian God, that I had become a Christian, that there were other Christians out there along this same line, and somewhere in all that, the place where Jesus, sin, and the Cross entered the picture. It's a good, good story! How I love to tell it!

[@TboneWTF]

LOL. Hallucinations can be fun, but you should see a mental health expert just to be safe. Good luck.

[@captainkrajick]

Praise God

[@georgewagner7787]

Hallucinations don't correspond with Scriptures or change your life

[@coldfridayduckcamp2457]

Amazing discourse. More seed planted.

[@TboneWTF]

"Seeds of Doubt". Yes.

[@rachelsupermanuel]

This was beautiful ❤ I have tears of joy! The great God & His mysterious ways will never cease to amaze us! Thank you for sharing this with the world 🙏 You don't know how many of us needed to watch this to further strengthen our faith.. churches around me in india are dying.. 😔

[@wallabea9750]

why are the churches around you in India dying?

[@rachelsupermanuel]

@wallabea9750 though there are rare gems, led by rare pastors (who sacrifice their own selves & families for the sake of Christ).. but the majority I have observed are dying due to compromise. Compromising the truth for society, actually for the tithes, all for the money cuz they gotta run their establishments and their own homes and send their kids to good schools, travel well, eat good food & all th other things the world runs after.. I know of many pastors secretly investing in real estate, not for the furtherance of the gospel but for their own comfort & profit. India is a huge & diverse region with varied issues in different regions. I live, interact & travel broadly out here so I see when pastors neglect the real spiritual need of their sheep for their own sake. It hurts me because they are in a position where they can do so much for the Lord in full genuineness & therefore lead the lost sheep closer to the heart of our Lord & into freedom from societal chains, hypocrisy, spiritual blindness. True Christianity is far from all the potluck brunches, youth fellowships and all other shallow excuses masking genuine faith. Big city churches & local indigenous churches/pastors suffer from almost the same problem of greed due to self servitude.

[@Bhr_Tattooie_007]

Marvelous words. Powerful video. Love it😊

[@virginiagriner5032]

We were created to worship our Creator. When we do that, He promises more blessings than we could ever imagine.

[@gburns9222]

What an incredible blessing! May God continue to bless you in the ways only He can!

[@aquilesdavalosruck2808]

What a great clip! So well articulated and communicated. It was honey to my ears 👌🏼

[@RuslanKD]

This was amazing. Can’t wait to react to it and watch more

[@cheaton75]

God bless him

[@CuriousObserver]

Wow! That was powerful

[@teddyboy252]

Thanks too you both do it again

[@angelamarie3861]

Ah, I love it. I love our God! I love all of the testimonies.

[@rtrouthouse1506]

I cannot love this enough! What a wonderful opportunity.

[@celestearellano3720]

Great conversation Jordan and Eric.

[@claireroche8920]

I love metaxes! I met him at one of his Socrates In the City talks.

[@davestephen8679]

Jordan accept God's gift I know your searching🙏💜

[@JaneFrizzell]

"He that hath the Son hath life..." 🥰

[@bandstand7835]

*playing this movie for our Constitution Group meeting on Monday night. Thank you for making this movie*

[@charlescharliejpeg]

I hope God softens Jordan’s heart ❤

[@waitwhat564]

Love you Eric

[@randycoukjr3697]

Reminds me of the man who found treasure hidden in a field and immediately went and sold all he had in order to buy that field.

[@awestruckchild758]

Your dream, your vision is Truly a wonderful testimony. Thank you for this.

[@theguardian6464]

4:54 "Don't get Jungian on me! You do that on your own time!" laughed so hard....:)

[@cf-kw5qo]

A wonderful dream from God . I’ve had a dream from God too

[@taraelmegreen5527]

Mr. Metaxas is one of my FAVE ppl speaking to ANOTHER of my FAVE ppl as well, Dr Peterson!!! How wonderful!!! Love hearing about Mr. Metaxas' life and dream....ty for sharing....

[@suryatkurma7466]

Powerful

[@roserye5511]

i've followed Peterson for a while now, and though he's closer, and he's done the Genesis series and doing the Exodus series, he just doesn't get it yet. Thank you Eric for being so honest. Praying that Peterson will get past the intellectual hurdle and truly understand his need for a Savior and will realize that faith is beyond intellect and receive Jesus!

[@youbigtubership]

What a tremendous dream, as vividly conveyed to my mind as any Hollywood movie.

[@gailcarey3597]

Our individual revelations from God are always clear of who the the author is. Most often the person is driven to document it for fear of forgetting the images.

[@drewwilson6639]

That's the 4th or 5th time hearing your testimony, yet it still has a profound effect on me every time i hear it

[@edwardgavin364]

Left to my own devices all I talk to is myself as a believer in Jesus Christ who by his finished work on the cross I can talk to a loving God who cared enough to die for me

[@philipc4689]

Thank God for bringing you into the fold Eric. You have ben a blessing to me and many others.

[@annieaviles4760]

Eric, you are a force to be reckoned with. God bless you!

[@siafaau7565]

Wow amazing power of God that He can reveal Himself to us in amazing ways 🙌 ❤

[@childofGod3n1]

Hallelujah! Isn't our God so magnificent?! He knows how to reach our heart. PTL ❤ 🙌 🙏