How the Undertaker (Mark Calaway) Became a Christian (Extended Version)

so you meet this beautiful woman you have a gorgeous family tell us a little bit about your spiritual pilgrimage because you are an active part of pastor mcrichard's church in lake hills where's pastor mac mac where are you pastor pastor are you here there's his better half is over here it's better oh yeah she's my first cousin julie stan she is here right there let's hear it yeah in the house you're in the house i've always you know i've always knew and believed in god i just didn't lead my life that way yes um i've never put a lot into being a celebrity that that just kind of flies right over my head you know uh because that's just not really who i am yes you know um but as you can imagine it you get exposed to a lot of different things um you know because of what you do and you know i live i lived a pretty excessive lifestyle um and and i didn't have a you know i i believe in god but i wasn't living my life for god yes and somehow another i met the uh i even actually get a little choked up wow she is uh she's awesome i love you too thank you i needed that i needed that save right there i was i was about to lose my whole character thank you um [Applause] but let me back up a little bit so my wife my wife actually worked with wwe too her name's wrestling michelle mccool so when she got there there was two people that she didn't want to meet kane and yours truly terrified did not want anything to do with me uh and it was funny because she has this unbelievable work work ethic you know so she was she would get to the arenas early and try and get around you know some of the the our producers our agents not in the sense that you would think agents like not like you know i'm gonna make this deal for you that's they they our televised events so but they were all really good hands and good wrestlers through their careers and now they work behind the scenes so she would pick their brains and and try and get them to get in the ring and work with her and it just caught my eye because i you know i was like no you never you never you know you never cross over that that line and i always told guys you don't don't date people that you work with and this is not going to work i said it for years and then i broke my own you know my own motto but but anyway so i i ended up getting to know her and you know i was just like wow she's really passionate about this you could tell that she was genuinely this is what she was wanting to do it wasn't a stair step to hollywood or anything else this is this was this is her you know she was passionate and um so you know finally you know after a long time of her chasing me around i was like not true at all finally i i you know she realized that i was not satan and uh yeah so we ended up you know we ended up dating and eventually she was living in florida and then she comes to austin and she started going to lake hills first and i was like okay go yeah you know i'll be here when you get home just you know go ahead and do your thing so she says would you please just just go come to church with me one time i'm like babe look i'm going to walk in there and the rafters are going to start shaking and i mean i i you know i believe in god i'm good just i don't want to you know it's like it's not going to work but she you know she was very persistent and she she wanted you know she wanted me to be the man that i could be and and that has nothing to do with being the undertaker and so i went and uh i was i was it was just the perfect circumstance at the at the perfect time she she pushed me and i went reluctantly but once i got there and you know i i grew up i grew up catholic and you know so i'm thinking to myself man oh man i don't want to kneel i don't want to get down with a pew i mean after 17 surgeries you can figure my body doesn't really feel good all the time so i'm like so there were no pews there were no you know i didn't know there was no kneeling and everything and i was just i just had this once again it was kind of like the egg man deal like i was getting myself worked up right yeah because i was thinking okay all right pastor's going to see me and he is just going to throw fire and brimstone right at it center center you know and it it and it wasn't nothing like that mac and and his family they were really awesome and it was it was more it was more like a conversation you know and i found myself from being you know kind of tense and pensive to kind of leaning in and like wow this is yeah this is this is this is pretty cool this is yeah wow and that started my my journey yes back to leading my life the way i should yes and and that great thank you michelle and i i can't wait for you to meet her with us she is a very strong woman and she had to be um and she i mean she's the one that that put me in the right place for me to get back my life back on track again to what really matters and i'm you know obviously i'm forever indebted just for that and they're not even counting how you know she's an awesome mom and you know she actually just did her mobile loaves and fish training so she's just she's awesome she's she brings the best she brings the best out of me and you you're telling me too when we've talked it's so interesting and and just to hear hear what what an amazing testimony of someone bringing you to church of course someone you love so much and then you i don't want to put words in your mouth but i believe you were telling me like how you knew about god but then that personal relationship that was that was that that that trigger yeah absolutely that was i i wouldn't have been able to give you i wouldn't be able to recite any kind of scripture whatsoever that first day yes i knew there was you know like i said i was raised catholic in a a god-fearing home but i just you know all my brothers all my brothers had to go to catholic school and you know taught by the nuns and getting their hands popped with the rulers and all that i still hear it when when i go home all the time about how how rough they had it but um it was yeah it was it was this it was the start of of me and my journey yeah and realizing that there was a whole nother part to life that i was missing out on and um i'm not perfect nor am i i know no one's perfect no one here is perfect no no i i get that i mean i'm still you know i'm still in my process yeah i'm getting there but i spend uh you know i spend a lot more time these days reading my bible and and no excellent

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Id: rCwnch5Hw-8

Length: 7min 59sec (479 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 24 2020