Race Car Legend Preaches Hell-Fire at National Prayer Breakfast

Darrell Waltrip

As the keynote speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast, race car champion Darrell Waltrip preached that every person who dies without Jesus Christ goes to hell. The NASCAR legend gave his testimony of salvation before a crowd of 4,000, including President and Mrs. Obama and the Dalai Lama. He told how that he was a heavy drinker and a selfish, “brash, ruthless, pushy, cocky, conceited, aloof, arrogant” man, but his life was changed by the power of Jesus Christ. He said: “I thought I was a pretty good guy, but folks, let me tell you something. Good guys go to Hell. If you don’t know Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, if you don’t have a relationship [with Him], if He’s not the master of your life, if you've never gotten on your knees and asked Him to forgive you of your sins, [and] you’re just a pretty good guy or a pretty good gal, you’re going to go to Hell. Think about that. I did. ... I got down off my high horse [and] got down on my knees. And Dr. Cortez Cooper and Stevie [his wife’s nickname] and I prayed that the Lord would come into my life and forgive me of my sins and be my Lord and Saviour. And that was the greatest day of my life. That changed everything. ... When the Lord comes into your life, you’re going to be different. You have to be different. If He comes into your life and you’re not different, you better go back and try it again, because the Lord changes you.” (“NASCAR Legend,” Christian News Network, Feb. 6, 2015).

(Friday Church News Notes, February 13, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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