Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Reginald & Marquand Buchanan
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00077B
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00:14 Welcome back, when I got into recovery I thought the best
00:18 I could do was not do drugs anymore. 00:20 I'm sure listening to Reginald the best he could do was 00:24 just not be involved in all that. 00:26 When I had my first child, all of a sudden I looked at 00:29 her and wanted everything for her. 00:31 I wanted her to never to have the same experience that I 00:34 had with drugs and being on the streets and all that stuff, 00:37 it is really different when you start having kids. 00:40 You want the best for them. 00:42 I know for Reginald, when I met his family, and looked at 00:46 his family and they are so amazing and beautiful. 00:49 So I'm going to have you meet them. 00:52 The generational thing that stops when we get into 00:56 recovery is absolutely incredible. 00:59 When everybody starts turning around, I have a daughter 01:02 that is 21 that has never done a drug or drank. 01:05 Sometimes I say whose child is this, because that is not 01:08 my background, but she is amazing. 01:10 When I met you Marquand, I was so excited because I knew 01:14 your dad, I knew that he had been through some pretty 01:18 incredible things, but I also knew that you were such 01:22 a serious man of God already. 01:25 I want to say welcome to the show and thank you for coming. 01:28 I'm glad to be here. 01:30 - you have heard your dad tell a little bit about where 01:34 he came from, what do you think of that? 01:35 Well he had a pretty rough background and he has come 01:39 a long way, but God has led him through it. 01:42 Whenever I hear his testimony I think about Saul when 01:45 he became converted and became Paul. 01:47 Saul he was a rough man, he went around persecuting 01:50 everyone who believed in Jesus, that Jesus was God. 01:54 - angry. - Yeah angry he was bitter. 01:58 Then God converted him on a street called straight, 02:01 while he was going to Damascus to arrest and 02:04 kill some more Christians. 02:05 I know that if He can change a man like my dad, 02:08 if He can change a man like Saul, then certainly He can 02:12 change anyone, anyone so. 02:14 So what is interesting is that you have never known your 02:17 dad to be the guy that he was talking about earlier? 02:20 - No I haven't. - gangster all angry and stuff. 02:23 Your dad is pretty gentle. - yes he is. 02:26 That is so cool, so how old are you? 02:28 I'm 12 years old. - and what grade? 02:30 I'm in seventh grade. - on drugs yet? 02:33 No! - any gangs yet? - no! 02:35 Are you going to do that? - never! 02:38 Because your parents taught you not to? - right! 02:41 My dad is like, you should never do that, never ever. 02:46 When your dad, when you dad starts teach you that, 02:49 you know that he is teaching you from his heart? 02:53 Right, he had the experience and he doesn't want me to go 02:56 through the same thing. 02:57 Does he tell you that sometimes? - yes he does! 02:59 In your life, tell me what your life has been like as far 03:03 as God and home and all that kind of stuff? 03:06 Well to me God is my best, best friend. 03:09 My best friend in the whole entire world. 03:11 I'm glad that I have a great role model of a father 03:15 figure that I can follow now. 03:17 You don't have that emptiness that your dad talked about, 03:21 because your dad's been in your life the whole time? 03:25 - the whole time yeah! 03:26 Could you even imagine your dad not being there? 03:28 Not really, now when I see him and him involved in prison 03:33 ministries, preaching from churches, in some churches. 03:37 You know I can't even imagine him being in a gang or 03:40 prison or anything like that. 03:43 - Nor are not with you. 03:44 So when I met you guys what I thought was the funniest 03:47 thing, somebody said will he just got done with 03:50 a seminar, like a 21 week seminar, I thought they were 03:54 talking about your dad. 03:56 I'm like well that is cool, they said no, no I was 03:59 talking Marquand just got done. 04:01 I'm looking at you and thinking no way. 04:03 I remember even asking you, so tell us a little bit about 04:06 that, you just did a seminar. 04:08 Well actually it was 21 night seminar in Arkansas and what 04:13 we did was 10 nights at the mall, then we went over to 04:17 the church and we did 11 nights there. 04:21 After it all five people came and wanted to join a church, 04:25 or be baptized, or come in by profession of faith. 04:28 So how did you set up for that? 04:33 Tell me how you learned how to do that? 04:36 Did someone instruct you, and I want to hear everything. 04:40 And then I want to hear that, what you thought about teaching. 04:42 Because when someone looks at your age they think he is 04:45 too young to even know what he is teaching. 04:47 I don't believe that about you anymore, I think you know 04:49 exactly what you are teaching. 04:51 Well it began by my dad talking to the Pastor Travis. 04:56 They was talking and said we need a revival or something. 05:00 They my dad was like let my son preach, he can preach a 05:04 revival, with God's help he can do anything. 05:07 I was like yeah, he asked if I wanted to do it? 05:10 I was like sure, that's more souls coming to Christ. 05:14 The more people that can learn the truth and learn how 05:17 to become followers of Jesus, so I was like it 05:20 would be a blessing to do this. 05:23 So the Pastor started working with me, he showed me how 05:27 to do the PowerPoint. 05:29 Right, how to actually do the Scripture and whatever you 05:32 are teaching, give me an example of one of the nights 05:36 teachings and what kind of things you talked about? 05:40 I talked about Revelation and Daniel and how to unlock 05:44 the keys to prophecy so people can better understand. 05:48 They think that Revelation is just a book full of 05:52 monsters and just a scary book. 05:55 Revelation is the book of insights, like what will happen 06:00 in the end time. - it's huge. 06:03 And once you open that, the Bible talks about there is 06:06 a special blessing for someone who gets into this book. 06:09 So the Pastor taught you how to teach that? 06:12 Yeah! - how incredible. 06:14 Are you like a normal kid at school? 06:18 Do you know what I mean, it's like I feel like I'm 06:21 talking to a Pastor, but at school you are just 06:23 a normal kid, right? 06:25 Yeah, I try to mingle with the kids and befriend them 06:29 and I tell them about Christ as we go along and become 06:34 best friends and then I can tell them about Jesus. 06:38 One of my friends, his name is Doug Scharlin, 06:43 he was a Muslim and every day on the school bus or 06:46 playground, he would come to me and say can you tell me 06:50 more stories about Jesus? 06:52 Can you tell me because I want to learn more. 06:54 He told me that in his religion that they respect all the 07:00 other churches and they know that Jesus, He is a prophet. 07:05 They do not know Him as the Son of God, but I just started 07:09 talking to him and he told me stories of the Koran. 07:12 I was like wow, they are so identical. 07:17 - they are so similar, other than one is saying that 07:20 Jesus is the Son of God, and one is saying 07:23 Jesus is a prophet, did he ever come around to that? 07:25 Well! - or are you guys still talking? 07:28 We are just talking and actually his mom was working in 07:33 the mall where we did the seminar at, 07:36 and she heard me speak. 07:38 One night he was up there and he got a chance 07:41 to hear me speak. 07:42 - so you did some of the prophecy seminar in the mall? 07:46 That is incredible, that is an unusual place 07:49 to do a seminar. 07:53 Most people they go to the mall, some people go to 07:56 the mall just to walk around and when they come up 07:58 and see a little short guy up there on the stage teaching 08:02 people, they stopped there at the front of the 08:05 door and just listen. 08:07 Show me something about what you do as far as when you 08:12 want to change someone's life. 08:13 To introduce the gospel to someone who may not even know 08:16 anything, so I would like you to show us that. 08:19 And you will have to do a little bit slower because 08:21 the camera has to pick that up, but it is amazing to me 08:24 what you showed me. 08:25 So imagine that you are talking to someone that just 08:28 doesn't know anything about God. 08:37 Imagine this as you full of sin, sinful, into gangs, drunk, 08:44 alcohol, strung out, everything you're just in 08:47 your mess and your messed up. 08:49 This is heaven, this is the goal that everyone wants to 08:52 reach, no one wants to go to hell. 08:54 Everyone wants to go to heaven to that beautiful light. 08:57 But you cannot go to heaven because of your sin. 09:00 God doesn't allow sin into heaven, so He sent His only Son 09:06 Jesus, to come and die on the cross for you. 09:08 So that you may have life and have it more abundantly. 09:12 So you can go to heaven and have eternal life. 09:15 Whenever someone dies, you go to their funeral and then 09:19 you go to the graveyard and they put them in the grave. 09:22 Now when Jesus died, they put Him inside of the tomb, 09:28 but on early Sunday morning He rose up from the grave. 09:33 He got up out of that tomb and now because of what Jesus 09:38 has done, you have a way to that light, because of what 09:43 Jesus did on the cross. 09:45 Now there is a pathway that you can go on to go to heaven. 09:51 You have a choice, you can decide right today, right now. 09:55 Do you want to hold onto God's hand and go to heaven, 10:00 or do you want to let go and perish in hell? 10:03 If you want Jesus to come to your heart, all you have to do 10:08 is pray, read the Bible, have Bible studies and share your 10:13 testimony all around the world. 10:15 - that is incredible. 10:17 You know I asked you one time if you memorized that 10:19 or do you believe that? I believe it with all my heart. 10:22 - you believe that, and it is interesting to me in one 10:26 generation your dad making a choice to come around and 10:31 change his life, that gives you the opportunity 10:34 to change your life 10:36 Could you imagine if you were born with him when he was 10:39 out running gangs and doing all that stuff? 10:41 You would be a whole different person. 10:43 Right, and I'm glad you mentioned when I was born 10:47 because when I was born my grandmother told me the story. 10:51 I was born in Florida, not Florida but Atlanta, Georgia. 10:55 When I was born I wasn't breathing, so my grandma was 11:00 afraid because it was her first grandson. 11:03 So she went outside and prayed for me. 11:06 When she came back in she saw that my heart was beating 11:11 and that I was breathing again. 11:13 So I'm a living testimony, I'm a living witness that God, 11:17 He is a mighty God, and I love Him with all my heart. 11:20 Exactly and even your grandmother said that you could 11:22 not have been here, but we prayed for you. 11:25 When you think about your life and what you want to do as 11:31 far as in your future, what do you want to do? 11:34 What kind of dreams do you have? 11:35 Well, I told myself that when I grow up this is my Marquand 11:40 Ministry and I enjoy doing this. 11:42 I do not want to be a Pastor and just Pastor a church. 11:48 I want to go around. 11:49 - your calling isn't a Pastoral calling? 11:52 No it isn't, I want to go around the world and share with 11:57 other countries and be like in an evangelist. 12:00 Go round and tell other people about the love of God, 12:04 and how they can receive it. 12:05 You had five baptisms, there are sometimes I've heard 12:09 Mark Finley or Billy Graham there are all kinds of people 12:13 that go out there and have hundreds of thousands of 12:16 baptisms, so you are saying that is what you want? 12:19 I could tell by your eyes just lit up when I said 12:22 that, so you want to change the world? - yes I do. 12:25 That is incredible, we are going to go ahead and take a 12:29 break but I am overwhelmed by the ability of God to come 12:32 into someone's life, not only come into someone's life but 12:35 change everything, change everything for generations, 12:39 change everything for the future of Reginald's children 12:43 are going to be some pastors, some evangelist, doctors, 12:48 all that kind of stuff. 12:49 When you come back I want you to meet this whole family 12:52 because his entire family has been changed because this 12:55 man stood up and decided not only to do recovery, 12:58 because recovery when I talk about celebrating life in 13:03 recovery, or stepping out of your addictions, 13:05 none of that is easy. 13:07 When Reginald talked about I want a drink, I'm not sure 13:11 I can do this, it is like you make decisions over and over 13:14 and over and over again. 13:16 Sometimes they are hard and you really have to fight 13:17 through that initial life change fight through learning how 13:21 not to lie and manipulate and dealing with anger, dealing with 13:24 your alcohol, drugs and all that kind of stuff. 13:26 But as soon as you start doing that, as soon as you 13:29 maintain your recovery, as soon as you start really 13:31 looking at and developing your life, everything changes. 13:34 Your children, your home, everything changes. 13:38 That is amazing to me so we are going take a break and come 13:41 back and I will have you meet the rest of the family. 13:44 And his wife because he has talked about his wife and I 13:47 want you to meet everybody and then we're going to close out 13:50 with that, so stay with us because it is amazing. |
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