“I grew up as a kid playing baseball,” Darryl Strawberry says. “I wanted to play baseball but that didn’t make me a man, that just made me a baseball player. I didn’t become a man until I met Jesus.”
Earning four World Series rings during his years with the New York Mets and New York Yankees, Strawberry is undeniably a Major League Baseball superstar.
If it were up to him, however, the highlight reel of his life would have less to do with sports and everything to do with Jesus, as he recently told a group of incarcerated men at Boonville Correctional Center in Missouri.
In this video, Strawberry shares:
-How addiction led to his incarceration in a Florida state prison.
-The unusual request Strawberry learned his dying mother asked of God on his behalf.
-Why Strawberry says he should be dead following his battles with addiction and cancer.
-Encouraging words for the correctional facility’s residents of God’s future and hope for each of them.
“I ended up in a place like this because I needed a Savior,” the former baseball great says of his time in prison. “The foolish stuff that I did should have cost me my life. I should be dead. I shouldn't be standing here, but God spared me.”
Now an itinerant preacher, Strawberry loves sharing his story of redemption. Watch his full testimony and prepare to be inspired.
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12 ноя 2023
