Is Billy Baldwin a D Born Again Christian

CBN.com Scott Ross [reporting]: Stephen Baldwin had some pretty big shoes to fill post-obit in the steps of brothers Alec, Daniel and Billy Baldwin, merely he's done it his way.  And his way makes for an entertaining interview.

Ross:  Did y'all buy into the lifestyle likewise?

Stephen Baldwin:  Oh yeah.  Of class, you tin't be 21, 22, 23 living in New York City, Alec Baldwin's piddling brother, making a couple 100,000 a year, and not get sucked into the fast lane.

Ross [reporting]: It took a woman on a bus to slow this fast-moving guy down -- at to the lowest degree a piddling flake.

Baldwin :  One solar day, I saw this chick. She was an absolute delight. We have been together ever since that day.

Ross [reporting]: Stephen and Republic of kenya settled into married life, and shortly they were expecting their first child.  Kenya explained to Stephen that it's customary in Brazil to hire a nanny when a infant is on the way. Since Kenya is Brazilian, that'due south the fashion information technology played out.

Baldwin: So, we hired this lady from Brazil named Augusta, and the whole kickoff week she's working for united states she's singing in Portuguese, which she only spoke that language with my wife.  She's singing about Jesus, and my married woman comes to me in a few days and asks me, "Practise yous hear what she'due south singing about?  She's singing about Jesus." My wife, afterward a few more days, approaches her. "I noticed your singing, and I'm wondering why every song is about Jesus?"  Augusta had this very interesting reaction. She outburst out laughing. My married woman said, "What'southward so funny?" She said, "Quite frankly, I think it's a niggling bit funny that you think I'm here to clean your firm."

Ross:  Isn't this why yous hired her?

Baldwin:  She goes on to tell my wife that, before she had accepted the job, she prayed with her pastor and some church members in Brazil.  She was told through a prophetic word that, if she went to live with the Baldwins, then one solar day Kenya and Stephen would come up to faith in Jesus Christ and be involved in ministry.

Ross:  She told all this to your wife?

Baldwin : I haven't told this office of the story a lot. She had a dream and saw me, saw my married woman and saw my get-go daughter Aliya.

Ross: Now, how did you guys handle hearing this fiddling bit of information?

Baldwin : Didn't faze me for a second.

Ross:  Why didn't it faze you? Did you have any spiritual background at all?

Baldwin :  Certain.  Raised Roman Cosmic up until eleven or 12, didn't stick.  Went out into the globe and did my own affair.  Just you have to understand at the time, I was functioning in Hollywood.  All kinds of different things, perspectives, lifestyles, perceptions, [and] to me this was just okay. This is the new kooky housekeeper. OK, what'due south adjacent? What practice nosotros do now? How nigh a reality show?

Ross [reporting]: Reality show?  Life at the Baldwins' was better than that!  Kenya was the first to dive into the Bible.  She spent many hours with Augusta talking about Jesus.  Ane night, Kenya went with Augusta to a Brazilian church in New York City.

Baldwin : She says, "Honey, sit down. I've got to talk to yous. I've accustomed Jesus Christ tonight as my Lord and Savior.  I've been baptized in water. I demand you to know that, from now on, what I need to do each day to the best of my ability is to become the most obedient servant to Jesus Christ that I can.  Now, I need that to be clear, and I need you to understand. I don't know what y'all're going to exercise, but that'southward what I'm going to practice." Then I watched her go through this radically beautiful metamorphosis.  It was astonishing.

Ross:  Did she start jamming Jesus downward your pharynx?

Baldwin :  No. No. Non at all. She went into a prayer and Bible study regiment dissimilar anything I'd ever seen before.  Up in the morning, on her knees face on the basis for an hour, without flinching, up off her knees into the bed with the Bible at least xxx to 45 minutes, every morning, every night, for one year.

Ross [reporting]: While Kenya was seeking God and learning more than about Him, Stephen was start to ask questions, especially afterwards September 11th.

Baldwin : September 11th kind of freaked me out. I said, "Hey, what's this all about?  My married woman's a Jesus freak. Possibly it's time I begin thinking nearly this faith matter."  Pursued it, became born again, accepted the Lord, baptized in water.

Ross:  You?

Baldwin :  Within 1 month after 9/11.

Ross: [Information technology] affected you that fashion and her prayers?

Baldwin :  All of it, all of information technology, simply here's the thing… After all that, she's come up to organized religion, and I've come to organized religion. I don't realize that this has completed the commencement half of the prophecy.  I don't fifty-fifty affair about that.  I'm too busy running around doing my matter.

Ross [reporting]: Skateboarding was his matter. So, Stephen got involved with these extreme athletes and started sharing the gospel to young people beyond the country.  "Livin' Information technology" was built-in.  But, telephone call it a ministry?  Stephen didn't think so.

Baldwin :  Praise the Lord, but exercise me a favor, don't ever say Stephen Baldwin and ministry in the same sentence. I make movies, and in Hollywood, that's career suicide.

Ross [reporting]: That's what he idea and then, only a take chances acquaintance was there to correct Stephen's thinking.

Baldwin : I'll never forget this. He said, "You better think about what's going on, because if you get down this road, so what is going on is you are involved in a ministry." I'll never forget that moment. What merely came out of that guy'south mouth -- and he was relatively a stranger in my life -- completes the 2nd half of a prophecy.

Ross [reporting]: The best script author in Hollywood couldn't have written a story as masterful equally the ane God wrote for Stephen Baldwin.  Equally for Stephen, the youngest of the Baldwin brood, is keeping everyone on their toes.

Baldwin :  Stephen Baldwin believes that at present we're in a detail time in the world's history where it is time that people stand up for Jesus.  That people get more ambitious and radical how they communicate with our civilization almost Jesus. My bespeak is simply this: I believe I have a calling.  Do y'all know what that calling is?  To stand up in a new and hard core, radical manner for the Lord. In the process, if I insult a couple of people, if I offend a couple of people, and if I got to shake it up a little bit, every bit long as it is led by the Holy Spirit, amen.

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