Famous actor and outspoken Christian Kirk Cameron recently shared his experiences in his journey to faith, where he ultimately rejected atheism and placed his trust in Jesus Christ. During an interview with TBN’s Matt and Laurie Crouch, Cameron explained how he went from being an atheist as a teenager to a full-blow Christian.
Explaining his upbringing, Cameron said, “None of my friends were Christians, and the ones that I knew who were Christians, I thought that was pretty silly.” He added, “I didn’t go to church. We never talked about God.” However, things began to change after he began to attend church.“I heard a message from a preacher, and I didn’t believe what he was saying, but he did. He was speaking with passion,” he recalled.
While he didn’t immediately become a believer, Christianity had caught Cameron’s attention. “[H]e eventually said, ‘Kirk, if you want to know if God is real, and you can’t tell by everything that’s around you, talk to Him, ask Him, but you’ve got to come to Him on His terms: humility and faith,’” he said. “I didn’t really have much of either one as a teen idol atheist back in the day.”
Cameron recounted when he first attempted to humble himself and speak to God. “I was sitting in my sports car parked on the side of the road, thinking about the fact that one day I could die and find out if what that preacher said was true. And if there’s a heaven, I wouldn’t be going,” he stated. “So, I remember praying for the first time, and I just said, ‘God, if you’re there, I want to know if you’re real…Would you forgive me for the wrong things that I’ve done? …Would you make me the man that you created me to be?”
He explained how after that moment, his entire life was radically changed. “I had this sense when I finished that perhaps I just spoke to the God of the universe, and maybe he would answer me, and He was so kind to do more than that. He changed me on the inside, and I began going to church…and I began to follow Jesus as the Lord of my life,” the actor said.
According to Cameron, his newfound faith began to transform his family as well as his lived one began getting saved and attending church. “This actually became something that brought our family closer together… And then all of a sudden, one by one, like dominoes, my family members started to get saved: my sisters, my mom and then eventually my dad, and I even had a chance to baptize my father several years later,” he said. “I’m super, super grateful the way that God worked in our family.”
Much of Cameron’s recent work has involved children’s entertainment as secular offerings seemingly stray further and further from God. “Children’s entertainment is getting darker by the minute. @Nickelodeon I’ve got a message for you, we’re taking back children’s entertainment one episode at a time and we’re doing it without a hidden agenda. Parents can trust Adventures with Iggy and Mr. Kirk just like we trusted Mr. Rogers. Go to watchbrave.com to help fund the future of children’s television!” Cameron shared on X.
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