The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast
The Pivotal Moment: A Fight that Changed Everything - Jonathan's Story Part 7
Thu, 27 Mar 2025
The Pivotal Moment: A Fight that Changed Everything In this excerpt, Jonathan shares the life-changing moment he was involved in a fight that left his friend in a coma. Jonathan says, "I was involved in a fight. He wasn't in the fight, but I fell down, and he fell with me, knocking his neck on the sidewalk. He ended up in a coma for two days." This incident was a turning point for Jonathan, leading him to a path of self-reflection and transformation. The support from his church community played a crucial role in Jonathan's personal growth. After the incident, Jonathan gave his life to Christ and found hope and purpose within the church. "I got baptized at 12 after that fight. The first thing the church did is they gave me the chance to preach to the children," he shared. This opportunity to preach was a testament to the church's belief in his potential and their commitment to nurturing his growth. "That's why the local church helped me to see hope, to have hope. Not only to be a positive view of the future but to have actually hope and hope is the ability to make things for, make that future to happen," Jonathan explained. Making a Difference Together: Join us next week to hear more about Jonathan's story and to learn how we can make a difference together. Visit Candace.com, click on "compassion," and see how you can be a part of this transformative journey! Come back each week to hear more about Jonathan’s story. To see how we can make a difference together, go to https://ccbpodcast.com/compassion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: How can we make a difference together?
Life is like a roller coaster, but it's so much better when we go through it together. It's true. We are better together. And this season, I'm asking our podcast community to do something together to make a difference in the world. There are hard things going on around us. Hurricanes, floods, fires, people hurting.
And as followers of Jesus, we show up in the hard stuff and we build relationships with people who need us. We give. Each week, I'm bringing you a short piece of an interview with a special guest. And each week, you'll hear more about what we can do together. These are short episodes, less than 10 minutes. So come join us.
Chapter 2: Why are words of encouragement important?
We take for granted words of encouragement. You said at the introduction, this podcast is for you. And we live in a moment that we take that for granted. Like some people might feel, oh yeah, that's nice. They don't actually realize this is an effort put to serve them actually. That's an example to say sometimes when we grew up in a stable environment, we take that stability for granted.
And for me, words of encouragement really feed my soul.
Me too. That is my love language.
Words of encouragement.
That's a book, The Love Languages by Gary Chapman.
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Chapter 3: What happened during the fight that changed Jonathan's life?
It's a great book. Yeah. And so, for example, in this letter, when I was 12, let me mention this very decisive moment in my life. I got into the program when I'm seven, when I'm 12. It's the end of that moment of me being rebellious and fighting. A friend of mine, I was involved in a fight. He fall down. He wasn't in the fight, but I fall down. He was in my back.
He fall down with me, knock his neck in the sidewalk and end up in a coma for two days. That's the worst fight that I was involved in. I didn't provoke the fight, but my friend is in a coma. And so I do remember I was taken to Dulce's office. Dulce was my Compassion Center director. She was a leader from the church. And I do remember I was crying, sweating, dirty. And I knew this was the end.
That's why my mother asked me, do you remember you almost lose the best opportunity of your life? and the police is coming and that was a moment for me to reflect on the path that I was taking. And I think of that and it is hard not to cry remembering God was so gracious to me that day through Dulce because I gave her all reason to keep me out of the center.
Chapter 4: How did Jonathan find hope and purpose after the incident?
I gave her all reasons to be ashamed of me. And yet that day, I never forget, she kneel down and she look at my eyes and she said, Jonathan, why you fight? We love you. You don't have to fight. That's the only thing that I remember in the conversation. The police came, they took the... the notes on what happened. But my friend woke up from the coma two days later and I was released.
Everything got clarified. And that's the moment I gave my life to Christ. I couldn't continue on the path that I was taking. God was giving me grace and I was giving him bad behavior, being rebellious.
So did you pray when you gave your life to Christ?
Yes.
Was that by yourself? Were you with Your mom or Dulce or?
It's a funny story because the night came and I do remember there was a, we didn't have a TV, but there was a show I saw in the church and it's called the 700 Club.
I think we're all familiar with that here. Most of us listening to the podcast.
And I say, I made my decision for Christ 700 times in this 700 club because they portrayed this story of a guy involved in fights and in a gang and in a ghetto in New York. And that was, I feel connected to that story and I'm crying and I'm waiting for the guy at the end to repeat the prayer. Like, do you want to come to Christ? If you want, pray with me.
And so I said, I came to Christ 700 times in the 700 club because in the church, I repeated that show in Dulce's office every time because I wanted to be safe. I wanted to be different. I wanted to take a different path. And the reason I, that story came to mind is because of this letter. I got baptized at 12 after that fly.
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