Thanks for the comment. Your explanation helps me understand better why you did what you did (or didn’t). Question: you wrote,

“I just don’t feel qualified to say words like I’ve read above.”

Were you referring to the post or the comments?

If the post, which words.

If the comments, which one[s]?

I am a Christian, I’ve been saved and baptized for nearly 11 years now. Reading your article, I’m a little disturbed by the underlying condescension throughout. As you said, there is a “traditional” way that one finds Christ, but you are forgetting a core Biblical conversion that took place as well. Saul, who later became Paul, was a murderer and persecutor of Christians. If you recall in Acts 7, when Stephen gets stoned, Saul looked on and “was there, giving approval of his death.” (Acts 8:1). Suddenly while on the road to Damascus in a journey to imprison followers of Christianity there, he was suddenly struck blind and fell, even while “breathing murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples” (Acts 9:1). He was not looking for Christ, nor was he on the “Roman’s Road” as you put it, but yet Christ found him and he later became arguably the most well-known of Jesus’ disciples and wrote the majority of the New Testament.

Getting to my original point, Brian has clearly had a life-altering experience. Yes, perhaps he was high on drugs when it happened, but he admittedly has been clean for nearly three years now and is still as on fire as ever. He’s even started a children’s home in, I believe, India. And so what if he thinks he “looks like Jesus”? The Bible calls us to emulate Christ in all we do and say, so why does it really matter? You seem to be forgetting what the foundation of Christianity is all about, which is lost and broken sinners coming before Christ and confessing that they need him as Lord and Savior. If Jesus were physically here on earth today, do you really think he would doubt Brian’s conversion just because he’s not as “eloquent” as you think he should be? Because he doesn’t always say the “right things” that someone who’s been through seminary and God-knows-how-many years of schooling on Theology and Biblical studying might want him to? The bottom line is, Brian should be an role model to these people, because he is preaching a better way of life to those who, like he was, are broken, lost, drug-addicted minds and souls who have seen a side of life most of us have never even come close to encountering.

Speaking from a Christian perspective, much of what you had to say sounds more like a Pharisee than Christ. He’s a new Christian, and his brain is most likely not at all where it should be in a person of his age due to the excessive drug and alcohol abuse throughout the years. But I would be very careful about implying that he most likely isn’t truly saved. After all, “I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.” (Matthew 12:36).

10You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11It is written:
” ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will confess to God.’ “[a] 12So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

However I must say it sounds like you are making fun of Head/Brian whether he felt God or whatever it was I think we should just be grateful that it helped someone (celebrity or not) get off drugs, be a better dad and help alot of people who suffer every day of their lives.

If however he did feel a ‘God’ like pressence he has said himself he is/was new to this whole experiance so he was just learning and isn’t/wasn’t word perfect like you seem to think that you are!

Give him a break and just let him carry on doing the amazing work that he has done already.

What question did you have?