Strange but True: Stephen Baldwin has a better testimony than Joel Osteen.

PR.com: What isolated me a little bit was that, I'm Jewish, I grew up Jewish, and I don't know that much about Christianity. The things I loved about your book are finding your humanity, focusing on spiritual things rather then material things and trying to serve the world and your community as best as you can. The thing that made me feel almost left out was the part about Christ being the only path to finding that sort of peace.




Stephen Baldwin: Right. Let me respond to that by saying this. According to what I believe, which is found in the bible, and obviously the chasm between the Jew and the Christian is pretty significant.

Understand, I say what I'm saying now only as a messenger, so to speak. And I say that loosely. If what I believe is true, that Jesus was the messiah, and if I believe that my faith is true, then every word in the bible's true, and if all that's true…and again, if it's true, Jesus is the only way and really what's become…the part of the purpose of the book for me is, God and my experience that I'm having in my faith. I really feel God speaking to me, and I don't mean I'm hearing some audible voice. I just mean in my spirit I feel God saying, "Stephen, you're a radical dude. Go be a radical for me, but don't sugar coat it. A lot of the Christian movement today is going to speak to whoever doesn't believe. Doesn't matter…Jew, Buddhist, Kabbalah…whatever it is. But these Christians today, they're kind of watering down what it's supposed to be all about.

You're supposed to lovingly, gently, as heartfelt and warmly as you can in most cases…and in some cases there's quite confrontational moments that I have with people. I just say, "Look. Don't shoot the messenger." I'm just saying that based on what I believe this is what God says is the truth. It wasn't until I personally started to embark on the experience that I came to believe that it was true and real. It's very interesting that you say, "I felt kind of left out." That's the point. I want you to feel left out. I want you to feel like you're missing something, because if what God is telling me about my faith and my experience is true, then you are missing something.