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The intriguing thing for me is non-Christians are beating Ray Lewis up for quoting scripture and the Christians are beating him up because \u201cuhh, well, uhh, maybe because, he\u2019s a guy who says he\u2019s been changed by the power of Jesus, quoting scripture the best he can, sharing inspiration every chance he gets, representing shirts with scripture, the first words out of his mouth after winning the Super Bowl being scripture, because he\u2019s got a past, he admits he used to be stupid and immature, he\u2019s trying to look to the future, he had a road to Damascus experience, he forgives people that hate on him, he encourages people who are down and out, he wasn\u2019t convicted of murder and\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Ray Lewis has made a positive impact on the lives of many including Olympic Favorite, Michael Phelps. According to Phelps, Ray\u00a0Lewis is who got Phelps back into the pool and kept him there.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u201cHe was probably the single reason I came back for four more years,\u2019 Phelps said. \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t know that, but things that he has said to me, I can never thank him enough.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As a former Prison Warden, I can say I\u2019ve seen the Ray Lewis story up close and personal through the eyes of hundreds of really bad men who found Jesus.\u00a0The one thing I can say about Ray Lewis, is that he blessed to be afforded a unique grace that can only be found through the blood of Jesus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The intriguing thing for me is non-Christians are beating Ray Lewis up for quoting scripture and the Christians are beating him up because \u201cuhh, well, uhh, maybe because, he\u2019s a guy who says he\u2019s been changed by the power of Jesus, quoting scripture the best he can, sharing inspiration every chance he gets, representing shirts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1333,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[88,6,116,114,115],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-grace","tag-jesus","tag-phelps","tag-ray-lewis","tag-superbowl"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Same Grace As Ray Lewis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The intriguing thing for me is non-Christians are beating Ray Lewis up for quoting scripture and the Christians are beating him up 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