Pastor Greg Laurie hosted Dennis Quaid on his podcast, where they talked about Jesus, shame and forgiveness.
Jesus “was the friend of sinners. People, children, were drawn to him. Sinners were drawn to him. The only people who didn’t like Jesus were the religious people,” Laurie explained.
He said Jesus was killed out of envy. People did not like the attention He incurred.
“It’s so interesting that here’s God walking among us and He’s called the friend of sinners and that was not meant as a compliment,” he said, to which Quaid agreed.
Quaid added that God wanted us to be freed from sin and shame. He removed the only barrier that was keeping many from God’s kingdom.
Laurie says the problem is now that everyone keeps sinning and needs daily forgiveness.
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“That’s why in the Lord’s prayer we pray, ‘Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us.’ We got to pray it daily. We need daily bread, and we need daily forgiveness,” he said.
Quaid said, “Yes, we need to accept and also dole out forgiveness.”
In 2024, Quaid told Fox News Digital that his faith helped him in hard moments of his life.
“I lean on God when it comes to the hard times as well. You know, we all need that. It’s something that gives me a lot of joy,” he said.
He shared his testimony through music in his gospel album, Fallen, which he released in 2023. The Teddy Bear Award® winner grew up in a Baptist church that sang hymns and wanted to go back to that and also explore his journey to faith.
But before Quaid was a Christian, he was a cocaine addict.
“I was basically doing cocaine pretty much on a daily basis during the ’80s,” he said previously. “I spent many, many a night screaming at God to ‘Please take this away from me and I’ll never do it again, cause I’ve only got an hour before I have to be at work.’ Then at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, I’d go, ‘Oh it’s not so bad.’”
When he went to rehab, his life turned around, and he wrote his first faith-based song, ‘On My Way to Heaven.’
Quaid said the album is about “looking around, trying to fill that hole in life with everything that the world has to offer.”
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