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There's nothing I can do that can separate
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Once you grasp that, it
can't not change your life.
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My name is Jordan and this is my story.
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I wasn't raised in a
Christian home at all.
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None of my family are Christians.
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But you know, as I grew
up, I kinda fell into
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just what, I suppose, is just
normal Scottish youth culture.
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Live carefree, live for the weekends,
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live for drink, live for girls.
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Just, I suppose, had no real purpose.
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Just living to get by.
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I grew up in the Scottish
borders in a rural area
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and then I moved up to Edinburgh to study.
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While in Edinburgh, I met,
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who's now my wife, my
girlfriend at the time.
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And she grew up in a Christian home,
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but she'd fallen away from her faith.
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She came back to faith.
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And she kept inviting me to church.
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And at first, I wasn't having any of it.
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And I remember one night, it
was about 2 in the morning,
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I'd just finished work.
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And I was waiting for my
taxi to come pick me up.
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And I just remember...
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There's ambulances going
about and people fighting.
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There was actually blood on the pavements.
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But I just remember seeing
this all and thinking,
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"This is what I'm like."
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"Is this what life is really about?"
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"Surely there's something more than this."
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And the following morning,
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my girlfriend was going to church.
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And I was sleeping on the
couch and she invited me,
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saying, "Do you want to
come to church today?"
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I said, "You know what? Fine."
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"You've been nagging me for months."
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"I will come. I'll come."
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So we sat through the service
and I really enjoyed it.
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At the end of the service, I remember
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me and my girlfriend got
on the bus to go back home
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and we were just sitting in silence.
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And I remember saying to her,
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"I actually really enjoyed that."
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And she didn't say anything,
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she just got this really
smug grin on her face.
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So I decided to go back the next week.
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And that week and the weeks after that,
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during the worship, during the
singing, for whatever reason,
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there was tears just
streaming down my face.
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Coming back to a long-lost family member
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after years of being away.
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That's the kind of feeling
I most relate it to.
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And I suppose that was the
moment I put my faith in Jesus.
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That was the moment I
got saved, as you'd say.
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I'd say I am a completely
different person now
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Before I knew Jesus, I was always
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just one who went with the flow.
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I'm no longer just course floating along,
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but there's something to live for.
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There's a country to reach.
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There's a world to reach.
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In Scottish culture,
especially in my family,
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we don't really wear our
hearts on our sleeves.
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I noticed a real closeness in my family
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since I became a Christian.
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And I think they've noticed it as well.
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One thing that God
always speaks to me again
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is saying, "I know you can't do this,
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but I can do this."
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"And it's through me you need this."
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"You need to rely on me."
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Personally, for me, I can't do anything
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if I'm not praying, if I'm
not rooted in the Word,
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if I go through a dry
season, I'm just useless.
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Once you understand Jesus' forgiveness,
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then you understand the love of God.
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And that's when you start to
see your life's transformed.
