DB: Ephesians 2:8,9.
RR: All right now, when you came to Jesus through this man’s witness, what did it do? How did it change your life? How did it effect your fellow players?
DB: Well, first of all–
RR: Because you began acting in a way that you weren’t used to acting before.
DB: First of all, you know, I had a strong wife. My wife Rhonda who I’ve been married to for ten years now, she was a Christian at the time. And she was just really a strong witness in front of me. She always stood by me. She was my support and really I just feel so fortunate and blessed to have a wife like Rhonda. And once I became a Christian and I started reading the Bible for myself and studying it and allowing God to work through my life just saying, in every situation, you know, I’ve made a choice this day to follow after You, Lord, to be the man of God that You called me to be. And I don’t know what to do. You just show me through Your Word and through my spirit, the Holy Spirit that You’ve given me, and show me how I am to live. And each day as I’ve been obedient to the Word of God I’ve been revealed more and more from studying the Word of God, spending time in prayer and fellowship with other believers and witnessing. This is what I’m doing right now, just telling what God has done in my life. I’ve just grown and grown. (Applause)
RR: A question I want to ask is the reaction, the reaction throughout your teammates and throughout the NFL and the fans, because suddenly people began seeing you do things, like, for example, the time that you, that you intercepted a pass, ran for a touchdown, the second largest interception in NFL history, and when you got into the end zone you got down on your knees and thanked the Lord. I’d like you to, I’d like you to talk about that, how people responded. And also when they saw you after Seattle came up in the world and you wound up beating the Miami Dolphins in the playoffs, you all were having a prayer meeting back in the dressing room afterwards. And cameras came in and the news media came in and saw all this. What was the response of people?