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CURT COLLINS: Well, I think when I really came to Christ, I’ll never forget it, it was my 11th Grade year. I made a retreat, and I’ll never forget the pastor saying, “You know, Christ is really looking at you right now and wanting you to follow in his ways and walk in his footsteps and his pathways.” And as a teenager that was kind of a hard thing to do, you know. But something hit me that day and I was on fire and have been on fire ever since.

My parents always raised me to go to church. I mean, that was not an exception. And with my family, I have two teenage boys, it’s not an exception. We go every Sunday, whether they want to go or not. Because, you know, in the Bible it talks about “raise up your child in God lest they fall away in life”, you know, and that’s the hope and a prayer that my wife and I have, that they will continue to walk Christ. Well, I think first of all when they’re teenagers they don’t listen anyway, you know? Daddy doesn’t have any answers at all, you know, he’s just stupid. As they get older, I think they’ll start coming around, you know. But I think just being an example, you know, to them and just constantly saying, “No, no, what is the Bible telling you about this?” Or your mother and dad, you’re supposed to respect your mother and father. You know, what is scripture saying about this situation you’re in right now? And I think that’s been the way that we’ve kept them in the right light, I guess if you want to call it the right light, you know raising them right.