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Rock Superstar Reveals Path From Drugs, Partying and Despair to Discovering God’s ‘Unearthly Forgiveness’
Sep. 17, 2014
Billy Hallowell
Korn guitarist Brian Welch found himself at a potentially dangerous crossroads. Drugs, partying and the rock star life were weighing him down, as he desperately sought reprieve from the depths of spiritual despair.
It was 2005 when Welch, who is featured in the new Christian documentary “Holy Ghost,” was enjoying fame and fortune as a member of Korn, one of the world’s most well-known metal bands. But at the same time he recalls feeling, as he described it, “like a walking gutter.”
“I mean, 11 years in a rock band just partying every single day, every drug I did except heroin,” he recently told TheBlaze. “I was on [drugs] for two years every single day. I felt like a walking gutter.”
Welch said he was a “walking shell” — that is, until he went to church one day and found Jesus.
When I went to the church, I heard that Jesus was real and I raised my hand in the air,” he said. “I went home and talked to him.”
The transition didn’t unfold over night, but Welch said that the experience stuck with him, as he spent the next few weeks talking to God, asking the Lord to help him change and, more specifically, to remove drugs from his life.
One day, Welch said be received the answer he had been seeking.
“In the middle of feeling like a gutter for two years, feeling like a piece of dog poop … I felt the most intense love coming into my room,” he said. “It was unearthly forgiveness. The stuff I’ve done behind closed doors, I should be put in jail for it. All I felt was forgiveness. [God] loves to shower beauty on the ugliest of circumstances.”
videos and continued http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...metal-superstar-reveals-path-to-christianity/
Sep. 17, 2014
Billy Hallowell
Korn guitarist Brian Welch found himself at a potentially dangerous crossroads. Drugs, partying and the rock star life were weighing him down, as he desperately sought reprieve from the depths of spiritual despair.
It was 2005 when Welch, who is featured in the new Christian documentary “Holy Ghost,” was enjoying fame and fortune as a member of Korn, one of the world’s most well-known metal bands. But at the same time he recalls feeling, as he described it, “like a walking gutter.”
“I mean, 11 years in a rock band just partying every single day, every drug I did except heroin,” he recently told TheBlaze. “I was on [drugs] for two years every single day. I felt like a walking gutter.”
Welch said he was a “walking shell” — that is, until he went to church one day and found Jesus.
When I went to the church, I heard that Jesus was real and I raised my hand in the air,” he said. “I went home and talked to him.”
The transition didn’t unfold over night, but Welch said that the experience stuck with him, as he spent the next few weeks talking to God, asking the Lord to help him change and, more specifically, to remove drugs from his life.
One day, Welch said be received the answer he had been seeking.
“In the middle of feeling like a gutter for two years, feeling like a piece of dog poop … I felt the most intense love coming into my room,” he said. “It was unearthly forgiveness. The stuff I’ve done behind closed doors, I should be put in jail for it. All I felt was forgiveness. [God] loves to shower beauty on the ugliest of circumstances.”
videos and continued http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...metal-superstar-reveals-path-to-christianity/