Why Violence Is Safer Than Vulnerability - Johnny Chang - #1140

Johnny Chang is a former gang member and inmate turned Christian pastor, speaker, and podcaster.

What happens when a boy enters prison at 12 and doesn’t emerge until 25? That was Johnny Chang’s reality. Raised amid violence and gangs, he eventually found God. But does a violent past define a man forever, or can he choose to become someone better?

Expect to learn how Johnny was brought into gang life when he was 12 years old, why Juvie is more violent but less lethal than prison, what life is like in prison and what it takes to survive, the hardest things to unlearn after prison, how Johnny found god and started preaching the gospel, what twelve-year-old Johnny would think if he could see himself now and much more…

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Timestamps:

(00:00) How Johnny Got Pulled Into Gang Life