whatted. one, my attorney kept pushing me to pray. he had become a born again christian a few months prior to my family hiring him mike: he was probably afraid of me. he was more of a heathen than i was before i got saved. mike: really? yeah. he s an attorney. mike: nuff said. i shouldn t have said that. mike: no, you should have. i should have. the pastor that led him to the lord asked him could you meet this young man. he asked me to say a prayer. he said find god. i have didn t know there was a god. i said god, if you are up there, and you prove yourself to me i ll serve you for the rest of my life. mike: we have the pastor who is instrumental to bring you to the lord. don george, pastor of cavalry temple for 35 years i ve known him. pastor george, when you first met maury davis by the way, he looked different. i ve seen pictures of him back then. it s unrecognizable. did you think he would one day pastor a large church in
pastor. mike: were you as shocked as i am hearing this story? just be the youth minister? i m thinking that the families of most churches would come to the pastor and say if this guy is the youth minister not only do we leigh but we take you out and do something with you god had done so many miracles in my life it was just another one. he gave us youth revival. we reached the dallas, fort worth, people of the city. i can t fix what i did but i can commit myself to investing myself in helping other people not do the same thing or go down the same road. one of my gifts back to the great nation is working with the young people in america. that was a gift. the families gave me the opportunity to pastor their children, which you and i both know is a miracle in this society. so it was just another one of the miracles that god did in my life. he is a mirk can working god miracle working god. mike: you say that s a jailhouse religion, pathway to get out of trouble and get back ja
said sure i ll talk to him. i developed a program after that. i saw the kid for two hours and the man comes back and says whatever you do with your law or whatever you do, you have to work with kids. why? he said my kid totally changed. he got to him. what you did, you got to him. i don t scare people. it s not scared straight. it s reality. but they hear it from someone who has been there. they won t listen to the teacher or the counselor or the mom and dad. but they listen to somebody who has been through what i ve been through they listen. that s what we develop the program, which is four parts. it s what prisoners really like. what you are going to lose. that s my wife, my kids, i had a 15-month-old baby. it hurt. it hurt a lot. when i got out of prison, thank god i have a relationship with my daughter. but you lost all of those years. you get pictures in and see
what qualifies you to be here? my pastor will never let me forget there is an x on my back. god chose the base things, notify the things are, and that no man should boast before god. nothing i accomplished in life could i touch the glory of. mike: what your story tells me if a person like you can find a changed life, completely transformed life, then it s possible for anybody. the worst police report, savage murder. senned to prison sentenced to prison. hopeless, didn t believe in god. for 30 years you ve been now leading people in a spiritual direction and for 20 yearses, one of the fastest growing most dynamic churches in america. a story of hope and redemption. god took me and saved when
[ laughter ] you know, i show these at a lot of functions i do. the ink on this is melted chess pieces. the needle is a guitar string. i watched a man catch mrsa and die. i see the kids today and i see them do a lot of things like oh, that is cool. it s not cool. if you want a tattoo, get a tattoo on the street. you don t have to be a criminal to be a tattoo. but when i walk in a room and show the kids what happened to me being abused and stuff why it s not worth it and why you have to go the next route you have to go the right route. we need the family in our lives and god back in our lives and a lot of things we re not having today. mike: find out how you came from this really pretty rough character to being a person out there now talking to schools and churches and all kinds of events. i bet you want to know, too, what happened to larry? you have to stick around. when you do, you ll find out.