Pints With Aquinas - My Three Cringiest Post Conversion Moments

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

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G'day everybody. Welcome to Pines with Aquinas. My name is Matt Fradd and today I want to share with you my three most cringe worthy post conversion moments. I shared this with my local supporters the other day and it was kind of fun. I was actually, I felt embarrassed sharing this with people. So first of all, I think it's okay to be so in love with Jesus, especially in that kind of beginning stage where you lack prudence. It's kind of like when you fall in love with someone and you want to tell everyone about them, like Susie's the best. And the other people are like, I'm sure she is, but just, you know, don't have to be a spaz about it. I think it's okay to be to be imprudent.

And I think like when you're young and full of energy, it's sort of expected. So I'm not I'm not not putting too much crap on myself for it. But these are extraordinarily cringy. So I was 17 years old. I was agnostic because atheism was not yet a cool way of showing that you were intelligent or more intelligent. So I thought, well, agnostic, because, you know, that sounds spiritual or something. So I go over World Youth Day in Rome.

You may have heard the story. I come back a full fledged Christian. I it was I really went from God doesn't exist to Holy Mackerel. Holy Mackerel. God exists. Jesus Christ is who he claimed to be. The Catholics are right. I want to do nothing else, but think about our blessed Lord and talk about him forever.

So I was in my senior year of high school. Let's think what's the first cringey thing that I did. These these are actually really embarrassing to share. As I'm thinking about them, I'm like, don't do that. All right, here's the first one. So I was really big into heavy metal as a teenager, and I still listen to heavy metal If I'm working out but I was into metal that was bordering on the anti-christian So when I came back from Rome, I took this gigantic Garden table. No this well, it wasn't jagat. It was just very heavy It wasn't gigantic as heavy garden table put it in my room

Put a gigantic painting of our Lord crowned with thorns on it. There was candles in front of it. I would pray in front of it all the time, freak my parents out. Interestingly enough, I think my parents were okay with the death medal, but it's a bit weird that you are continually praying and you have gallons of holy water on your table. So what I did was I must have got a cut on my arm once and I had this idea. I had a diary. You can react to this because you're gonna hate it I took one of these death metal slightly anti-christian CDs and I snapped it in half I glued it into my diary and with my own blood wrote lead us not into temptation that was the first thing I did what yeah I hate all of that yeah that first thing I did. What? Yeah. I hate all of that.

Yeah, that's what I did. Woo! Then I just like burned a bunch of my books and all of those and like anti stuff and burning books is cool. Cutting yourself and writing it. I don't think I didn't cut myself intentionally. It wasn't like I'm going to cut my it was just like, you know, that's the first cringey thing that I did.

Here's the set. This goes in order. So the third one is so used to write in blood. So just my finger lead us not into temptation. So it was like a big page as my fat fingers. OK, it must have been a lot of blood. You probably should have seen somebody. You probably should have seen it.

Yes, I probably should have, but I didn't. All right. So that's the first thing I did. Second cringey thing I did was I was asked to be like a bartender at this club in my small town of Port Pury. It wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't a club. It was, well, it doesn't matter. The music was pumping, the drinks were flowing.

I wasn't like making any fancy drinks, but I was given beer, given different things and people are all hanging out and dancing and stuff like this. And this woman, young, beautiful woman came up to me and we started talking. And she shared with me that she she would want to engage in certain activities, which has never happened to me before and since. And I was very tempted by that. And I had this moment of grace.

You still listening? Because this is pretty bad. I had this moment of grace where I'm like, I can't live the way I used to live. And so I said, I basically told her to go home or go away, something like that, which I should have probably said a little nicer, but I... And I just had this kind of like,

just this infusion of joy, you know? Like Christ is he's my joy he's my hope I don't want to go back to the sewer I don't want to live there anymore it promises gold and it gives you poo not interested so in that moment of just joy here's what I did I went out so I wasn't a DJ it was actually just this big stereo system with speakers everywhere I click pause and everyone's dancing and everyone stopped because it was very jarring to have everything go silent. And I yelled, I love Jesus. See, and I could play again.

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The day that I beat Taylor Marshall is the day I'll quit. Please don't. So if you know, I won't quit and good on Taylor Marshall, but I would like to keep going. So thanks so much. All right. Here is the third cringy thing. So before I became a Christian, I was dating a girl and we were in an impure relationship and I broke up with her, you know, like several months before I went on this trip. When I came back from this trip, like uber Christian,

I was having a party at my house. My parents were away at this big party and her and I were sitting in my lounge room. You don't say lounge room in America, do you? Just living room. Yeah, we're sitting in my living room and I must have tried to talk to her about Jesus because like sparks were like flying. Like we, I was like, she's beautiful girl. I was very attracted to her. You know, it felt like things were moving in that direction, but I just, I couldn't stop talking about our Lord. So I must have mentioned him and tried to evangelize, you know, and she, she laughed at me. And I, so I'm not pretending, this is not a good thing. I'm not saying I should have done. I punched it. I didn't edit that out. No, don't. Andrew Tate. I'm top G.

So what I did was, are you ready? I looked at her and Iris, she's not even a Catholic. She's she doesn't know what the creed is. I recited the creed at her triumphantly. So you tried to riz a girl up with the creed. No, I was, I was done with her at that point. I told her about Jesus and she laughed at it. And I said, I believe in God the Father Almighty and

at that point she's like what what do you creator of heaven and earth of all things visible and invisible I was the entire Creed and at this point she's very scared as she should have been and then here's the cringiest bit I stood up and went and I hope you find him too. And I walked out of my own house. You understand I wasn't somewhere else and left her. I left her in my living room and went back to the party and this poor girl. If you're watching, I'm so sorry I did this to you. I don't know what she was thinking.

Probably that I was mentally kind of cool. Honestly, that one's not that crazy. That was just like if you laugh at Jesus and then you just recited the creed of her like later. That'll do. Recited the creed at her, not with her. Not here's what I'd like to do. Just like at like with aggression.

And I stood up and I left the poor thing she had to leave. Like she had to like come back into the party probably had to say goodbye. Those are the three post conversion no three cringiest post conversion moments I could probably think of way more and if I spoke to my parents they could say yes there's definitely more my friends would say that too but those are my three if you've had a conversion to Jesus Christ and you have evangelized imprudently, what I mean by that is in a way that really wasn't going to help anybody, please let us know

in the comments section below.